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.

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.

EWTN News, Inc. is the world’s largest Catholic news organization, comprised of television, ... adding to the papal white soutane and pellegrina the red mozzetta and stole.

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 ...

April 22, 2025 at 6:00am BST. JORGE Mario Bergoglio was a Pope of firsts, the outsider’s outsider. Into the soutane-black of a cool March 2013 Rome night, he emerged onto the world stage clad in ...