The stories about Catholics that Hollywood tells—and awards—has as much to do with what is happening with the church ...

A priest’s role in the Church extends beyond preaching and pastoral care; it involves celebrating the sacred liturgy.

The chasuble’s origins trace back to ... narrow band of fabric worn around the neck. It’s a vestment that denotes the clergy’s ordained status. Deacons wear it diagonally across the chest; priests and ...

The cope is a cape-like vestment that priests and deacons can wear. It is not what the priest usually wears for Mass — that is the chasuble, the outer vestment which is open at the sides but ...

WWE Superstar Damian Priest officially moved to SmackDown last night. Following the Friday Night Show, the former World Heavyweight Champion revealed why he left Monday Night RAW. The Street King ...

ROME — Priests in the West today are facing a raft of challenges, from declining church attendance to critical financial conditions in many parishes, which they say are being compounded by ...

A group of Democratic lawmakers in Montana have introduced a bill that would require Catholic priests to disclose confessions related to serious crimes, challenging the church’s long-standing ...

“I hate seeing new priests come to our community. I hate the smell of the incense that the Catholic Church uses.” She said she recently found her birth certificate and that she planned to burn ...

As a Catholic priest in Philadelphia, I am concerned. It is within these places of worship, in the Catholic tradition as well as many other faith traditions, that we hear proclaimed God’s message of ...