When she comes up to the altar rail to receive a blessing during Communion while wearing her clerical vestments, the Rev. Anne Tropeano — known as "Father Anne" — receives a variety of looks from ...

Originated centuries ago in Europe, the Red Mass was inspired by the scarlet robes royal judges wore and the priest’' red vestments that ... a permanent deacon — not a cardinal, archbishop ...

(1) When the Mass is sung by a bishop, assisted by a deacon and sub-deacon ... A Requiem Mass is one said in black vestments and with special prayers for the dead. A Nuptial Mass is one said ...

Priests and deacons wear beautiful vestments during the celebration of ... For in the holy Eucharist, the Catechism of the Catholic Church notes, "Christ, God and man, makes himself wholly and ...

POPE Francis closed the global Synod on Synodality’s final assembly on Sunday with a call for a Church that “hears the cry of ...

The designer worked with Le19M, the Chanel-owned craftsmanship hub in Paris, on the outfits that will be worn by 700 clergy ...

By Deacon Frank Agnoli The Catholic Messenger This is the fourth article in our series about two re-translated liturgical ...

When Lisa Amman went to Mass the day after the conclusion of the Vatican summit on the future of the Catholic Church ... of engagement for Discerning Deacons, which advocates for restoring ...

Cardinal Walter Kasper, a respected German theologian and a longtime conservative voice at the Vatican, told a German church ...

The idea of women serving as Catholic priests has not been seriously discussed. But women ordained as deacons could fill the gap, performing baptisms, witnessing marriages, presiding at funerals ...

At Holy Angels Cathedral, Bishop Robert McClory, of the Catholic Diocese of Gary, ordained the latest class of men to become permanent deacons. In the Catholic Church, the diaconate is the first ...