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In choosing Jesus we also choose the cross and there is real death, and the pain involved here cannot be softened or ...

This Sunday’s celebration of the great apostles Peter and Paul is a celebration of the Church.

Peter is then told to put on his cloak. The robe in Scripture is often equated with righteousness. Thus the instruction of ...

The recent conclave and election of a new Pope drew the world’s attention to the papacy, the oldest, continuously existing, “as well as arguably the most ...

On this Sunday's Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, the Church honors two saints who responded to the Lord's call to ...

If Jesus trusts us, then we too can trust one another, in his name,” Pope Leo XIV said, extending his call to unity to all ...

The Gospel passage for Peter and Paul is Matthew 16: “You are Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church.” Leo XIV began ...

Peter’s meaning for us does not lie primarily in his preaching or writing, but in the honour accorded to him by Jesus. Peter has not worked out the puzzle of Jesus’s identity by himself: God has ...

Pope Leo XIV warned against the risk of “falling into a rut, a routine, a tendency to follow the same old pastoral plans ...

By Edoardo Giribaldi Pope Leo XIV presided over the celebration of Sunday's Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, patrons of ...