Liturgical Index
Solemnity of Ss Peter and Paul
By the entrance to the Basilica of Santa Sabina in Rome, where I lived for nine years, the fifth century mosaics give equal dignity to Peter and Paul... more »
From the many writings we have about Jesus, two men emerge: Peter, and Paul. No two could have been more different.
It isn't quite so simple as to... more »
It must have seemed typical of the arrogance and disrespect of the Gentiles that the pagan city of Caesarea Philippi was named after two men --... more »
Why is it that two individuals so immensely important in the history of the Church as Saints Peter and Paul and yet so extraordinarily different from... more »
Today's feast of St Peter and St Paul is a Roman feast. It celebrates the fact that we are Catholics, and our full communion with the Church of... more »
The Feast of St Peter and St Paul has always seemed to me not to give Paul a fair share of the honours! The first reading - Peter's miraculous escape... more »
In celebrating Peter and Paul by a common solemnity, we're celebrating the apostolicity of the Church - the rootedness of the Church in a commission... more »
Children ask questions all the time about all sorts of things. Children want to know about absolutely everything. When their questions amuse us, we... more »
