The Solemnity of Corpus Christi, Feast of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, is one of the most important celebrations ...

Pope Leo XIV’s inaugural Mass at St. Peter’s Square is an ancient ritual filled with symbolism that connects back to Peter, ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass on Friday, a day after his historic election as the first U.S.-born pope in the Catholic Church’s 2,000-year history while ...

The new pope is then attired in temporary vestments prepared in various sizes for the occasion and awaits his formal introduction by the senior cardinal deacon, who stands on the balcony on the facade ...

The earthly remains of most of history’s 266 popes (plus some European royals) are buried in Rome—in dozens of catacombs and cemeteries in, under, and around the city. Remains of a sprawling ...

All 133 cardinal electors will attend a Eucharistic celebration in the morning ... If he accepts, he chooses a papal name and wears the papal vestments before he goes out to the balcony of ...

open image in gallery The "Room of Tears", a small room next to the Sistine Chapel, with the vestments of the next Pope displayed in three different sizes (VATICAN MEDIA/AFP via Getty Imag ...

The priest at the altar would be wearing alb, chasuble, maniple and stole, the familiar Eucharistic vestments of the Western ... known Western Rite of the Orthodox Church. Keeping the Mass.

COMMENTARY: Unlike a politician focused solely on this world, a pope’s chief responsibility is helping to guide millions of souls to the next. Altar of the Chair in St. Peter's Basilica, where ...

If he is, the new pope chooses a papal name and is dressed in papal vestments. The ballots of the final round are burned with chemicals producing white smoke to signal to the world the election of ...

The new pope spends a few moments in a room off the Sistine Chapel known as the Room of Tears, where he is dressed in his white papal vestments. Each cardinal then comes forward in turn and makes ...

The new pope then dons his new papal vestments - tailors keep large, medium and small sizes ready - and sits on a throne in the Sistine Chapel to receive the other cardinals who file up to pay ...