The Catholic faith is rich with symbolic clothing: the priest’s Roman collar, the nun’s habit, the Pope’s white cassock and cap. They invest the church with a sense of timelessness and gravity.

A recent report by the Catholic Multimedia Center ... Although the cassock and the Roman collar are the common clothing of priests, many of them don’t usually wear them on a daily basis ...

The Vatican’s announcement Monday that Roman Catholic priests may bless same-sex relationships ... with a civil union ceremony, or with any clothing, gestures or words that are proper to a ...