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November 13, 2015

Back to the catacombs: New emphasis placed on bishops' simplicity pact

Retired Italian Bishop Luigi Bettazzi of Ivrea, Italy, is pictured during a press conference at Vatican Radio Nov. 12. Bishop Bettazzi, 92, is the last surviving bishop of the 42 members of the Second Vatican Council who signed a pact in 1965 in the Catacombs of Domatilla promising to live simply and close to the poor.

VATICAN CITY - Italian Bishop Luigi Bettazzi is the last surviving bishop of the 42 members of the Second Vatican Council who celebrated a Mass Nov. 16, 1965, in the Catacombs of Domitilla and signed a pact promising to live simply and close to the poor.

Published in Vatican