If history is really biography, then the stories of remarkable Catholics such as Fr. Petr Pit’ha, an intellectual-turned-catacombs priest who helped keep the faith alive during the dark days of ...

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 ...

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 ...

An interview with Fr. Giuseppe Moretti, head of the missio sui iuris in Afghanistan Fr. Giuseppe Moretti is a sixty-six year-old Barnabite priest from the Italy's Le Marche region. He has been ...

Rome’s catacombs will open to the public for free guided tours and moments of prayer and reflection on Saturday, March 2, as part of the seventh edition of Day of the Catacombs. A press release ...

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 ...