The earthly remains of most of history’s 266 popes (plus some European royals) are buried in Rome—in dozens of crypts, ...

At All Saints Shrine, there are first-class relics of Teresa of ávila, Thomas More, John Fisher, Padre Pio and Pope Pius X, ...

Francis never changed church doctrine on homosexuality or budged on the question of marriage. But he offered a revolutionary ...

Vatican City THOUSANDS GATHERED AT THE PIAZZA SAN PIETRO Monday evening to pray the rosary and honor the life of Pope Francis ...

The funeral Mass will likely be celebrated inside St Peter’s, because of the late winter weather, and there is also the ...

Another option for the afternoon or evening, especially if you have teens, would be to visit the crypts and catacombs on an ...

Pope Francis had expressed the desire to be buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, a fifth-century church in Rome ...

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JEWISH CATACOMBS IN ROME One of our best sources of information ... it spreads in Greece and Italy. These are precisely areas where we know there were Jewish communities, there were Jewish ...

It may not be the same in Rome as it is in Asia Minor ... [T]here's a beautiful mosaic in Ravenna, a city in northern Italy, which I routinely show my classes. It's of a beautiful, very handsome ...