Vatican City: Pope Leo XIV has released a new Apostolic Letter marking one hundred years since the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology was founded. In the document, he describes Christian archaeology as both a vocation and a form of love for the Church and humanity, highlighting its role in connecting faith with real events, places and people.

Pope explains that Christian archaeology is more than the study of ruins. It involves touching history through objects shaped by human hands and rediscovering the lives of people who lived the faith in earlier centuries. He says this discipline helps make visible the mystery at the heart of Christianity, reminding believers that God entered human history in a real and physical way.

Pope Leo writes that archaeology reveals how the Chris

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