In Rome's St. Peter's Basilica four new princes of the church, clad in magnificent scarlet robes, knelt last week to receive from Pope John their red hats, symbolic of their elevation to the ...

The Cloyne priest spoke to the Catholic News Network on August 4, the feast day of St. John Vianney, a 19th century French cleric and the patron saint of priests.

When Pope Francis celebrates Mass on Sept. 25 at Madison Square Garden, an event expected to attract 20,000 people, he will wear green vestments, which symbolizes Ordinary Time in the Catholic church.

He became a Catholic at the age of 18 and a Dominican four years later in 1981. He wrote his dissertation under the supervision of the Jesuit faculty in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He left the ...

Into the soutane-black of a cool March 2013 Rome night, he emerged onto the world stage clad in simple white robes, a shaft of light beaming from the loggia of St Peter’s Basilica.

In the summer of 1905, the Catholic cassock, and whether to ban wearing it in the streets, sparked a passionate debate in France.For Charles Chabert, a leftwing MP, the black ankle-length soutane ...

First, he dons a black robe, known as a cassock or, in Catholic and high church traditions, a soutane. Mr Winterbourne says it takes him six hours to make a cassock from cut to finish.

Yet Browne’s significance inthe Catholic Church’s role in 20th century Irish society is obscured by the ... his height enhancing the long black soutane with its thousand and one pea-size ...