Alb: A long white linen vestment with sleeves, it symbolizes the purity of heart that the priest brings to the altar.

The next pope among those few, those happy few, personal favorites would be St. Pius V. Elected pope in January 1566, he led by his ascetic example, eating only two meager meals a day, vegetable ...

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From the moment Pope Leo XIV emerged from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, church observers have sought comparisons ...

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The Shakespeare scholar Clare Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith, delivered the annual Allen Hall Lecture last week and ...

The 267th pontiff, Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost, marks a significant milestone as the first pope from the Order of Saint Augustine and the first born in the United States. A dual ...

But I have some. I was scared of Pope Pius XII, the pope of my childhood. At movies I recall seeing Pius XII in a lot in the newsreels they used to screen between showings of the movies.