The Jubilee Year of Hope would be a chance for the Catholic faithful to embrace a new beginning, a commitment to love, renewal and service. While jubilee years are significant in the Catholic Church, ...

Religious leaders started getting together after Oct. 7, 2023, in the hope of preventing a repeat of Arab-Jewish violence that erupted after a previous conflict in Gaza two years earlier.

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VATICAN CITY — The new American pope received a very American reception in Vatican City. “USA! USA! USA!” chanted a boisterous group of young clergymen dressed in long black cassocks, pogoing in the ...

ROME — Two papal tailors and no conclave orders. The conclave that began Wednesday to elect a successor for Pope Francis is the first in 46½ years for which the Vatican hasn’t ordered a set of ...

The Gammarelli tailors traditionally prepares three outfits -- short, medium and tall -- to fit new pontiffs whatever their size but say this time the Vatican has asked them not to. With just hours to ...

ROME - For decades, one Rome tailor has been making the white cassock new popes don immediately after election -- but this conclave it has competition. The Gammarelli tailors traditionally prepares ...

The Gammarelli tailors traditionally prepares three outfits - short, medium and tall - to fit new pontiffs whatever their size but say this time the Vatican has asked them not to. ROME - For decades, ...