The pontiff addressed a massive crowd, estimated by the Vatican at around 70,000, in St. Peter’s Square on June 7 during a ...

Pope Leo XIV will gather the cardinals at the Vatican on June 13 to give final approval to the canonizations of eight ...

Leo noted St. John Eudes as the first to celebrate liturgical worship of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, St. John Mary Vianney ...

Pope Francis joined tens of thousands of faithful in bidding farewell to Benedict XVI at a rare requiem Mass ... Wearing the crimson vestments typical of papal funerals, Francis opened the service ...

Would the first American pontiff be a sequel to Francis — or more along the lines of St. John Paul II or Benedict XVI? If the new Pope’s choice of words and vestments is any indication ...

(“I announce to you a great joy: We have a Pope!”) Wearing the white papal vestments for the first ... he was inaugurated six days later; Pope Benedict XVI’s inauguration took place five ...

As the papal conclave ends with the emergence of white smoke from the Sistine Chapel to signify the selection of a new pope, tailors are creating the papal vestments — the pope's official attire.

with more than a quarter-century passing between the election of Pope John Paul II in October 1978 and that of his successor, Benedict XVI, in April 2005. And now as then, longstanding tradition ...

When Francis emerged on the St. Peter’s balcony in 2013, he opted for all-white vestments—indicative of his career-defining humility—before donning the stole. Leo, like Pope Benedict XVI and ...

In recent days, many have swung by central Rome’s famed tailors before the conclave to browse and buy refined clerical vestments ... a cheap light wool. Pope Benedict XVI used more elegant ...

As the papal conclave ends with the emergence of white smoke from the Sistine Chapel to signify the selection of a new pope, tailors are creating the papal vestments — the pope's official attire.