She once asked me why Catholic priests wear “all those fancy robes?” To give her credit, she asks because she really wants to know — not because she’s picking a fight. In fact, I wish ...

Priestly vestments, Gibson argues, are part of the Catholic tradition of celebrating beauty. “It doesn’t make a lot of sense for the celebrant to be dressed in sackcloth and ashes,” he says.

The priest wears elaborate vestments, and there are candles, incense and icons of saints and holy figures. Worshippers stand through much of the service while participating in a back-and-forth ...

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, for example, wears lace collars with her judicial robes. Catholic priests alone are mocked as ecclesiastical Lypsinkas in the media and elsewhere when ...

I'm a married Catholic priest who thinks ... fully vested in my priestly robes, ... One need only look to the clergy shortage in many Protestant churches to see that opening up clerical ...

The priest’s garment are “for glory and for beauty” (Exodus 28:2). Liturgical garb performs a revelatory function, as all liturgy does. It’s not for the comfort of priest (and when you ...

The pope’s chasuble, the poncho-like vestment used by priests celebrating Mass, was similarly simple – less elaborately decorated, in fact, than the one worn by cardinals in attendance.