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 ...
ROME (RNS) A passionate manifesto signed on Nov. 16, 1965, on an altar in the Roman catacombs pledged bishops to live simply to be close to the poor. Known as the Pact of the Catacombs, it was ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In fact, it is Manhattan’s only Catholic cemetery.Believe it or not, there was an old St. Patrick’s Cathedral before there was a new St. Patrick’s Cathedral and, apparently, the one in New York City’s ...
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