wears an heirloom headdress with feathers taken from peacocks and birds-of-paradise. The kina shells on her necklace are a status symbol. Shells were legal currency in Papua New Guinea until 1933 ...

Throngs of ordinary faithful made their way slowly to the 16th-century basilica's main altar, where Francis' simple wooden ...

The Pope dons a headdress in Papua New Guinea, September 2024(Photo: Courtney Mares/EWTN News) One of the most moving encounters I witnessed took place not in a grand cathedral, but in a prison in ...

Papua New Guinea’s first and only cardinal ... the traditional pointed headdress. Mourners waited hours to reach the casket, which sat behind a cordon. Some held their cell phones aloft as ...

Papua New Guinea’s first and only cardinal ... wearing the traditional pointed headdress of bishops and red robes, his hands folded over a rosary. The Vatican’s No. 2, Cardinal Pietro Parolin ...