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 ...

Hollywood star Chris Pratt is currently at the Vatican as part of a documentary project. The occasion also led to a meeting ...

Fabrizio Bisconti, superintendent of archaeology for the catacombs, pointed out frescoes with the earliest known icons of Peter and Paul beneath a Rome office building Tuesday. ROME - ...

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

Parishioners of the Holy Apostles Parish have received an early Christmas present from the Vatican with news that the church ...

As the word of God testifies, the Apostles occupy a special place in the Church—Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God(1 Cor. 4:1). Vested with ...

Today the Holy Church piously remembers the sufferings of the Holy Glorious and All-Praised Apostles Peter and Paul. St. Peter, the fervent follower of Jesus Christ, for the profound confession of His ...

The earliest known icons of the apostles Peter and Paul have been discovered in a catacomb under a modern office building in Rome. The images, which date from the second half of the 4th century, were ...

This etching is Dutch artist Rembrandt’s depiction of a crippled beggar being healed by the Apostles Peter and John at the temple gate called Beautiful. Rembrandt lived from 1606-69. (Courtesy Photo) ...