Forty synod fathers met Sunday to celebrate Mass in the same catacombs in Rome and to sign a new pact advancing some of the same principles. Brazilian Cardinal Claudio Hummes, the synod’s relator ...

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 ...

Cardinal Pedro Ricardo Barreto, left, attends the opening prayer for the Amazon synod, in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Monday, Oct. 7, 2019. Pope Francis opened a three-week meeting on ...

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 ...

A candlelight catacombs tour of the crypt at St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral in Manhattan reveals the church’s history, including its famous tenants. By Helene Stapinski See more of our coverage in your ...

By Walter Sánchez Silva From the heart of Nicaragua, a priest in that nation says the Church is sustaining the people?s faith from “the catacombs of prudence” in the face 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 ...

Fr. Giuseppe Moretti is a sixty-six year-old Barnabite priest from the Italy's Le Marche region. He has been following the action in Afghanistan since 1977. From 1990-94 he was in Kabul, where he ...

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 ...