The underground cemeteries, nearly 2,000 years old, hold some of the earliest evidence of Christian faith, belief in the ...

CATACOMBS FOUND IN CHURCH. A clerk at historic Christ Church discovered large underground vaults containing caskets and evidence of long-forgotten catacombs under a courtyard where America’s ...

The catacombs at Westminster Presbyterian Church had been around for more than 100 years, but had fallen on tough times; ... The catacombs under Westminster Hall today.

ROME – ROME (AP) — Twenty-first century laser technology has opened a window into the early days of the Catholic Church, guiding researchers through the dank, musty catacombs beneath Rome to a ...

The bishops' all but forgotten pledge, known as the Pact of the Catacombs, has gained new resonance with Pope Francis' vision of a church for the poor. Under the vaulted ceiling of the basilica, a ...

Medieval Rome's 'Catacomb Saints' were posthumously excavated, bejeweled and sent across Europe It’s unknown who these people were in life, but their corpses were presented as saints in death.

Cardinal Zen, former Bishop of Hong Kong, has been a frontline soldier for the Church Militant in its spirited resistance to the secular fundamentalism of Chinese communism.

All Christian catacombs in Rome are property of the Catholic Church, and no one is allowed to explore them without special permission from the Vatican. "It's not so easy to get the permission.

Luckily for New Yorkers, a trip to see catacombs is quite a bit closer than expected. In the NOLITA neighborhood of Lower Manhattan sits the Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral.

The earthly remains of most of history’s 266 popes (plus some European royals) are buried in Rome—in dozens of catacombs and cemeteries in, under, and around the city.