As Catholic cardinals gather for a conclave to elect the next pope, we must all ask: Why are they all wearing red yarmulkes?

Cardinal Robert Prevost, the first American pope in Catholic Church history, has been elected and will be known as Leo XIV.

Catholics in New Orleans ... women wearing mantillas, the traditional head coverings that were required until the Vatican II reforms. After the Sunday Mass at St. Patrick's, a young mother ...

By John Eligon When Pope Leo XIV emerged on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica as the new head of the Catholic Church on ... bureau chief for The Times, covering a wide range of events and ...

Barring the rule about head coverings, the trio adhered to the dress ... service to honour the Pope's 12-year legacy as head of the Catholic Church. Seated alongside the Macrons, in the first ...

The European nobles and politicians arrived in the gardens of Palazzo Brancaccio in gowns and tuxedos, ready for aperitivi with the Catholic power ... dined at a head table next to Princess ...

Pope Francis was the spiritual leader of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics, head of state of the Vatican ... with their holdings covering two millennia of Christianity, but also the remainder ...

Survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic priests are calling for Pope Leo XIV to institute a zero-tolerance policy and for the ...

The day after his election as head of the Catholic Church ... Dmytro Hubenko Dmytro covers stories in DW's newsroom from around the world with a particular focus on Ukraine.

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Cardinal Gibbons High is the only official Catholic high school for the 54 counties in the diocese that covers the eastern ... of Raleigh,” Jeff Bell, Head of School at Cardinal Gibbons, said ...