The last major public viewing of the chair occurred in 1867, when Pope Pius IX exposed the Chair of Peter for the veneration of the faithful for 12 days on the 1,800th anniversary of the ...

Vatican City, Nov 9, 2024 / 06:00 am. For the first time in over a century, the historic Chair of St. Peter, a wooden throne symbolizing the pope’s magisterial authority, has been removed from ...

On Feb. 22, Catholics celebrate the Feast of the Chair of Peter. “A feast for a chair?” you ask. Yep. You see, Peter wasn’t just any old apostle. Oh, sure, he made a lot of mistakes ...

On the Pope’s authority, Vatican Councils I and II affirmed that when the pope speaks Ex Cathedra, “from the chair,” he speaks with authority of Saint Peter who was entrusted with full ...

Vatican City, Feb 21, 2006 / 22:00 pm. In his weekly Wednesday audience, held earlier today at the Vatican, Pope Benedict used the occasion of today’s Feast of the Chair of St. Peter to explain ...

The Feast Day of the Chair of Saint Peter is an occasion to highlight the authority of the Bishop of Rome, who guarantees unity and legitimate differences within the Church, a role attested since ...

Rev. Gus Puleo, former pastor of St. Patrick's Church in Norristown. So, Jesus converts Peter from a single stone to a solid, fixed and immovable foundation of rock on which the Church would be ...