The Hungarian National Museum displays King Stephen I's coronation mantle, a 1031 Byzantine silk relic adorned with gold embroidery.

The animal rights organisation says 10,000s of bulls are killed annually in bullfighting dedicated to Catholic saints. View ...

Do you know what a cassock is? What about a surplice? Ever heard of a chasuble or a zucchetto? All these and more are items ...

However items given by royalty to the Abbey still survive elsewhere – for example the Stonyhurst cope and the so-called Westminster chasuble. The colours of vestments vary according to the seasons or ...

FROM under a parking lot in the centre of Berlin, a team of archaeologists unearthed ancient human skeletons of nearly 4,000 ...

6.The Chasuble or long vestment over all, to signify love and remind the priest, by its cross on front and back, of the Passion of Our Lord. Q. 943. How many colors of vestments are used ...

Two activists from animal rights group PETA interrupted Pope Francis’ general audience on Wednesday, shouting and holding up banners against bullfighting before being escorted out of ...

Some of Caise's favorite roles have been as Cutler in "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," Boy Willie in "The Piano Lesson," Nick Bottom in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and Chasuble in "The Importance of Being ...

The Importance of Being Earnest is being presented at ASC's Blackfriars Playhouse. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Techno popes - He juggles his burgeoning music career with his duties as a parish priest in Laundos in northern Portugal, where he often slips on his chasuble to say mass over jeans and trainers.

The priest from West Sussex, UK, posed in a red chasuble next to a bull with the inscription: “It is a sin to torture animals.” PETA has pointed out that Pope Francis wrote in his encyclical ...