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 ...

While Ukrainian Christians face persecution from invading Russian forces, one sect, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), faces seizures and possible total liquidation following allegations of support ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...