Cardinal George Pell arrived at the Melbourne Magistrates Court in Australia wearing a clerical collar. There had been some speculation about whether he would wear the Roman Catholic Church garb for ...

SAGINAW, Mich. (RNS) Tired of wearing an uncomfortable, plastic clergy collar designed for men, the Rev. Beverly A. Smith had a moment of divine inspiration. Smith, pastor of Kingdom Life Ministries ...

QUESTION What is the origin of the clerical collar? The clerical collar is a detachable collar made from white cotton or linen (although nowadays it is often made of plastic). It fastens at the back ...

Stephen Cliffgard Lee, a Lutheran pastor in Illinois, was the last co-defendant of former President Donald Trump to be booked and photographed at Georgia’s Fulton County Jail on Friday. Lee could be ...

SAGINAW — Tired of wearing an uncomfortable, plastic clergy collar designed for men, Saginaw Rev. Beverly A. Smith had a moment of divine inspiration. Smith, pastor of Kingdom Life Ministries ...

A British church safety group is advising clergy—from the archbishop of Canterbury on down—to reduce the risk of being attacked by taking off their clerical collars when they go out while off duty. A ...

LONDON (AP) -- Catholic and Anglican clergy members should remove their clerical collars while off-duty to avoid being singled out for attack, a British church-safety group says. Clergymen often are ...