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 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 ...

Find today’s readings here. In the collect for the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter, the church prays to God “that no tempests may disturb us, for you have set us fast on the rock of the ...

The informational sign near the chair in St. Peter’s Basilica informs visitors that “shortly after the year 1000, the Cathedra Petri began to be venerated as a relic of the seat used by the ...

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 ...