A powerful symbol. With their soft, ethereal tones, the harp, lyre and zither have long held a place in the collective ...

During the council, a group of bishops gathered in the Catacombs of Saint Domitilla to sign a pact in which they committed themselves to renouncing wealth and privilege and becoming a "church of the ...

Francis’ papacy honored Latin American Catholics killed for their social justice work, a theologian explains – and Leo may ...

It was signed in the Catacombs of Domitilla in Rome just after the end of the Second Vatican Council. The signatories, who later numbered 500 out of the 2,000 members of the council, vowed to ...

Following in the footsteps of some of the Council Fathers in 1965, a group of participants in the Synod on the Amazon goes to the Catacombs of Domitilla to reaffirm the preferential option for the ...

the Catacombs of Domitilla, the Catacomb of Saint Agnes, and two Jewish catacombs. These underground chambers hold the tombs of Christian saints and martyrs, one of the earliest depictions of Jesus ...

Last week, for example, on a visit to the catacombs of Domitilla, he compared the persecuted Christians of old to those who today live in “nations with atheistic and totalitarian” governments.

We arrived at the second destination, Catacombs of Domitilla, after hopping on the bus provided by the tour. As one of the largest and the most ancient underground cemeteries in Rome, Catacombs of ...

the Catacombs of Domitilla, the Catacombs of Sts. Marcellino and Pietro, and the Catacomb of San Pancrazio. Access to the catacombs is free of charge and a full list of events, including musical ...