This photo is fun. It just has everything: The Cardinal in cappa magna, the trusted sidekick-prelate (who I cant identify), the "tough ...

I love this portrait of Francis Cardinal Bourne. It's a bit too dark, but the mood is just fantastic. Francis Bourne was born in 1861 in...

... of James Cardinal Macintyre. You've already seen him in cappa magna . Now you can see his Eminence with mitre and crozier and palliu...

He was born in Pennsylvania as the fourth of ten children. He studied in Montreal, Pennsylvania and Rome, where he made his doctor. He was o...

Bad news: It's summer again so posting will become less frequent during the next three months. However, since I want "the far sigh...

Eberhard Count of Ortenburg-Tambach, prelate in Wiener Neustadt This one is pretty cool. You can see a canon of the Cathedral of Salzburg on...

Co-catholic-blogger carolina cannonball confessed that her favorite kid on this photo from a previous post is the one on the left: Boy, is ...

John Cardinal Murphy Farley, archbishop of New York from 1902 to 1918 (center) with a prelate who looks like Diomede Falconio, Apostolic Del...

Charles Marie Himmer, bishop of Tournai from 1948 to 1977, on the day of his consecration Leonce Albert Van Peteghem, bishop of Ghent from 1...

The website of the Papal Swiss Guards offers everything from organization, history and galleries to recruitment and merchandising. Of cours...

It would be tempting to call what happened in Chicago between the 20th and the 24th of June in 1926 an "event", but I wont do it, ...

"Westminster" of course is very popular right now, what with Cardinal Hoyos' pontifical mass and the "Traditional Mass fo...