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.

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 ...

Burials at St. Patrick’s began in the late 1700s. The most recent addition to the catacombs was the 2014 interment of Msgr. Nicola Marinacci, who died in September 2014 at age 103.

NEW YORK (RNS) — Under the nave of the Basilica of Old St. Patrick's, a tour guide takes the curious through Catholic catacombs only recently opened to the public.

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 ...

From plaques in the sidewalk to catacombs under a church, New York has plenty to offer those who turn their gaze downward. By Michael Gold Embedded in the sidewalk outside a cigar store in ...

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 ...

By JOHN L. ALLEN JR.PraguetIf 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 ...

The catacombs opening from the church have not been entered to a great distance, and though more rudely excavated than most of those nearer the city, as if intended for the burial-places of a ...

CHRISTIAN ART began in the catacombs. Under ground, by the feeble light of lanterns, upon the ceilings of crypts, or in the semicircular spaces left above some of the more conspicuous graves, the ...