Peace be with you,' Pope Leo XIV said in greeting the thousands of people who packed St. Peter's Square, a plaza brimming ...

Thirteen previous leaders of the Catholic Church had gone by the ... a white cassock (ankle-length clerical coat), white zucchetto (skull cap), red pellegrina (shoulder cover), red and golden ...

For centuries, newly-elected popes have worn a white cassock (ankle-length clerical coat), white zucchetto (skull cap), red pellegrina ... important meaning in the Catholic faith.

Rome, Italy – For the princes of the Catholic Church ... sash and a white zucchetto – or skullcap – which is red for cardinals, purple for bishops and black for priests.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost on Thursday became the first ever pope from the United States, a surprise selection by 133 cardinals from across the globe on the second day of the papal conclave in ...

Behind altar servers carrying a cross and candles, priests assisting the cardinals ... a mozzetta (a short cape), their pectoral crosses, a zucchetto (skull cap) and a biretta, the three-cornered ...

Behind altar servers carrying a cross and candles, priests assisting the cardinals processed toward ... a mozzetta (a short cape), their pectoral crosses, a zucchetto (skull cap) and a biretta, the ...

The zucchetto, or silk skullcap ... most of the vestments worn by the secular clergy and religious orders of the Catholic Church actually have their origins in secular dress," he wrote.