SCRANTON – In a church claiming more than 2,000 years of evolving hierarchy, it should be no surprise that the office of Roman Catholic bishop comes with symbolic and sometimes arcane-sounding ...

In his first public Mass, celebrated in Seville province, Spain, Bishop Rolando Álvarez, who has been living in exile in Rome since January, prayed and offered his pectoral cross to Our Lady of ...

Holding his pectoral cross aloft and showing it to a reporter on the Baltimore waterfront, Bishop Joseph Strickland said he was not at the U.S. bishops' general assembly this week to seek attention ...

Pope Francis, pictured July 4, receiving a pectoral cross made for him by students of Chile’s Catholic University, using pieces of wood recovered from a church that was torched in 2020. (Credit: ...

Over his purple-sashed cassock and heavy gold pectoral cross, Episcopal Bishop James Pernette De Wolfe of Long Island tied a white apron. Over his purple-edged skullcap he put a chef’s white hat. In ...