The Rev. Frederick Keiser wears his alb and cincture during his ordination in Rome in December. The vestments were stolen recently. Courtesy of Fred and Linda Keiser If the person who broke into the ...

A three-member Rotary team spelled the Latin word “cincture” — which means a cord or sash of cloth worn around an ecclesiastical vestment or the habit of a religious person — correctly and took home ...

George Pell's heavy robes would have made it impossible for him to expose himself to the choirboys he was found to have molested, according to a retired Catholic priest. The disgraced cardinal's ...