Across the U.S., the Catholic Church is undergoing an immense shift. Generations of Catholics who embraced the modernizing ...

A woman has pleaded guilty to being part of a global monkey torture network. Holly LeGresley, 37, from Kidderminster, Worcestershire, was a participant in a private online group that paid people in ...

That evening the young musicians return to Mestia’s square in full festival regalia: boys in burgundy cassocks, silver daggers hanging from their belts; girls in long black peasant dresses.

Hushed clerics in black cassocks referred only to "His Holiness." Huge oil canvases on the dark paneled walls depicted epic events in Russia's religious history. Acolytes instructed visitors where ...

5. Cardinals were named after religious figures. Their red coloring reminded people of the red cassocks (robes) worn by the Catholic cardinals. Their red coloring reminded people of the red ...

Or maybe that’s just when many people at the pale brick Catholic church in the quiet Wisconsin neighborhood finally began to ...

So much was changing. Sermons were focusing more on sin and confession. Priests were rarely seen without cassocks. Altar girls, for a time, were banned. At the parish elementary school ...