Traditionally, the Golden Rose is blessed on the fourth Sunday of Lent, Lætare Sunday, also known as Rose Sunday, when rose-colored liturgical vestments replace the penitential ... the most deserving ...

“I am not exiled, I am liberated. I do not feel exiled, but liberated,” emphasized Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Álvarez during ...

The vestments used at Benediction are ... If the celebrant be a bishop, the Mass or Vespers is called Pontifical Mass or Pontifical Vespers. Q. 954. What is Vespers? A. Vespers is a portion ...

Papal delegates and those specially appointed ... The pallium is a white woolen vestment worn by the Pope and sent by him to patriarchs, primates and archbishops. It is the symbol of the fullness ...

A friend asked me the other day about the chances the next pope will be Italian. It’s an interesting question, one that can – should – be parsed out carefully and in several different ways.

Apostolic Exhortation on Jesus Christ and the Peoples of Oceania: Walking His Way, Telling His Truth, Living His Life Pope John Paul II Rome, November 22, 2001 Reference to Mary: paragraph 5 and 53, ...

If God lies in the details, the papacy follows close behind. The architecture of the great Catholic Church rests on not just the grey and grim men and women floating down the Vatican corridors in ...