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

St. Pius V. 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 ...

One lower corner of the panoramic mural recalls the Oct. 7, 1571, Battle of Lepanto, the miraculous naval victory attributed to the Rosary: Pope St. Pius V asked Europeans to pray for Our Lady’s ...

He cited two of his predecessors; first, Pope Francis, who said that “War is always a defeat!”, and Pius XII, for whom ...

Contemporary gifts made by Indigenous artists carry the legacy of colonisation. The ethics of gift exchange need to be ...

The Global Baroque exhibition highlights 17th-century Rome as a vibrant crossroads of cultures under Pope Paul V. Through ...

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

But Pope Pius XII was not completely silent either, especially in his Christmas messages. His 1941 and 1942 Christmas messages were both translated and published in The New York Times (Dec. 25 ...