Some things never change. Throughout history, the worldly minded have made war on the Church, fulfilling the promise of Christ that those who had persecuted him would also persecute those who followed ...

A man lights a candle in a temporary Ukrainian Catholic tent church in 2013 during anti-government protests in Kiev. Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kiev-Halych and other Ukrainian Catholic leaders ...

On the evening of Nov. 16, 1965, quietly alerted to the event by word-of-mouth, some 40 Roman Catholic bishops made their way to celebrate Mass in an ancient, underground basilica in the Catacombs of ...

articipants from the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon celebrate Mass in the Catacombs of Domitilla in Rome Oct. 20. Several dozen synod participants at the Mass signed a pact promising to care for ...

Tourists slowly file into the dim space, some holding up their electric tea lights to read the inscriptions on the vaults. (Credit: RNS photo by Samantha Maldonado.) Listen NEW YORK — Thomas Wilkinson ...

At first glance, the basement of First Presbyterian Church in York appears fairly ordinary: a dimly lit corridor housing nothing but pipes, an HVAC unit and several footstones. But a tiny, wooden ...

The catacombs opening from the church have not been entered to a great distance, and though more rudely excavated than most of those nearer the city, as if intended for the burial-places of a poorer ...

Deep below the streets of Rome lie the ancient catacombs where early Christians buried their dead and sustained hope for eternal life. About the same time as the persecution of Decius, middle of the ...

Vix fama nota est, abditis Quam plena sanctis Roma sit; Quam dives urbauum solum gacrls Sepulchris tloreat. THE results of the investigations in the catacombs during the last three or four years have ...