the beating heart of one of the most unique dioceses in the Catholic Church, the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter. Though in full communion with the Catholic Church, the ...

Every year on Feb. 22, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the Chair of St. Peter, a tradition that dates back more than 1,600 years. The feast honors not just a physical chair but what it ...

The Catholic Church holds that Jesus gave St. Peter a special place or primacy among the apostles, citing the Gospel of Matthew 16:18–19. The primacy of the bishop of Rome, as a successor of ...

Pope Francis presides over a mass in St. Peter’s Square ... the doctrine that the Bishop of Rome has universal primacy over the Church and is “infallible” when he speaks ex cathedra.