This a powerful “top ten” list from Tim Staples of Catholic Answers, wherein he proves from the New Testament that Saint Peter and his successors are the Vicars of Christ. The only thing I would have added, along with the commission … Continue reading
National Catholic Register: For the first time and to coincide with the end of the Year of Faith, the Vatican is to put on public display the relics of St. Peter. Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of Pontifical Council for the … Continue reading
CNA: Pope Francis made a private visit to the tomb of St. Peter on the afternoon of Easter Monday to spend time in prayer before the remains of the first pontiff. Read more here.
My friend Robert Hickson just sent me a prayer to Saint Peter composed by the Catholic writer Caryll Houselander. After reading the prayer and scanning some biographical information about the author on the internet, I am intrigued. From the little … Continue reading
Catholic News Service Carol Glatz reports: Tradition holds that St. Peter was jailed in Rome’s maximum security Mamertine Prison before he was crucified upside down and buried on the hill where St. Peter’s Basilica was later built. And now after … Continue reading
There’s a painting of Saint Peter in the Immaculate Heart of Mary Chapel here at the monastery in Richmond, NH, which, I believe, had to have been drawn from a photograph. Every time I look at it I think to … Continue reading
(Edited from an actual reply recently sent from Saint Benedict Center.) To our online readers: I am sharing this “for what it’s worth” to you. I never got a response from the lady to whom it was sent. Maybe you … Continue reading
The Catholic Church alone can trace the origin of her authority across nearly 2000 years and over two hundred-sixty successive men to Simon Bar Jona, the man renamed by Christ as “Peter.” In fact, a very simple description of a … Continue reading
(Dealing with two common objections against the Faith.) A Note of Introduction: In its first part, this article employs the use of some fundamental concepts of logic, the art and science of correct reasoning. As an aid to the reader, … Continue reading
Father Muller was one of the most widely read theologians of the nineteenth century. This article was first published in 1875.
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