Pope Leo will also celebrate a Mass for the soul of the late Pope Francis and deceased cardinals the following day.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Close to the start of the ancient Appian Way in Rome is the earliest known underground cemetery in the city, a network of catacombs containing remains of early Christian believers ...

The restoration of the ancient Catacombs of Commodilla in Rome, supported by Azerbaijan’s Heydar Aliyev Foundation, was ...

Close to the start of the ancient Appian Way in Rome is the earliest known underground cemetery in the city, a network of catacombs containing remains of early Christian believers, popes and martyrs.

ROME - The earliest known icons of Apostles Peter and Paul have been discovered in a catacomb under an eight-story office building in a working-class neighborhood of Rome, Vatican officials said ...