People worldwide watch St. Peter's Square for white smoke from the Sisten Chapel. Once the smoke comes out, what happens next? Yes, the cardinal electors have chosen a new pope, but there's a process ...

What a pope wears carries incredible meaning as we witnessed last month when Pope Leo XIV greeted the faithful from the loggia on May 8, 2025. Donned in a red mozzetta and a stole over a white rochet ...

For more than 70 years, Raniero Mancinelli has sewn and shaped the vestments of the successors of St. Peter. Raniero Mancinelli, now 86, reflects on dressing four popes and the renewed interest in the ...

Where every known method of divination seemed to fail, a group of researchers at Bocconi University in Milan found a hint in ...

Vestments worn by Pope Leo XIV and his concelebrants July 9 at the first Mass "for the care of creation" were made by a firm in his hometown of Chicago. The pope celebrated the inaugural liturgy — the ...

Jewelry’s role in the rituals of power are well documented if still underestimated. Goldsmith Roberto Franchi, who was commissioned along his brother Claudio to make the gold Fisherman’s Ring worn by ...

Pope Leo XVI will be formally installed as pontiff when he holds his inaugural public Mass at St. Peter's Square on May 18, the Vatican said. The first U.S.-born pope, formerly Cardinal Robert Prevost ...

April 4, 2005 — -- Pope John Paul II has been laid out on a red, velvet litter in St. Peter's Basilica for public viewing, dressed in white and crimson vestments and a pointed white hat. The ...