Exactly a month after he died, Cardinal Francis George’s emblematic red hat will be suspended from the rafters of Holy Name Cathedral alongside those of five of his predecessors. Though George ...

Eyes gazed skyward — some filled with tears, others with appreciation — as the tasseled red hat of the late Cardinal Francis George rose to the rafters of Holy Name Cathedral on Sunday. The ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Sunday marks one month since Francis Cardinal George passed away from cancer and his red hat now hangs from the rafters at Holy Name Cathedral. The red hat, which is called Galero ...

A centuries-old honor is planned Sunday for the late Cardinal Francis George. The ceremony at Holy Name Cathedral is called "Month's Mind" Mass and is meant to recognize the one-month anniversary ...

As the pope places a red hat, called a biretta, on the new cardinal’s head for the first time, the pope says: “[This is] scarlet as a sign of the dignity of the cardinalate, signifying your ...

REUTERS PHOTO BY TONY GENTILE -- New cardinal Robert Sarah, of Guinea, receives the red biretta, a four-cornered red hat, from Pope Benedict XVI during the Consistory ceremony in St. Peter's ...

Each cardinal wears a tiny, stemmed red hat, and they’re not the only ones — bishops wear pink (technically the color is “amaranth”) hats, the pope wears one in white and lower priests ...

A hat-shaped symbol used as part of a Roman Catholic cardinal’s coat of arms has been misrepresented online as a UFO symbol to question whether the Vatican is ruled by aliens.

Kneeling before Pope Benedict XVI, he was given a red skullcap called a zucchetto. Pope Benedict also placed a three-pointed biretta, colloquially called a "red hat," on Cardinal DiNardo's head.

The archdiocese will raise his ceremonial hat called a "Galero" to the cathedral's ceiling. Chicago's five previous cardinals' hats are already hanging there.