In today's Gospel reading, Jesus speaks prophetically to Peter, indicating that his life will take a very different course ...

As some of you perhaps know, I was in Rome earlier this month, providing commentary for various news networks who were covering the papal conclave. It was a fascinating, exhausting, and exhilarating s ...

So disagreeable did the authorities find this message that, around the year 64, they rounded up Peter and brought him to the Circus of Nero, situated outside the city, to the west of the Tiber River.

Like St Peter – Christ’s chief apostle and first Pope who came from Judea to Rome, where he was eventually crucified, upside down – the current conclave could set up another transition from ...

(Considering himself unworthy to suffer the same death as Christ, Peter requested to be crucified upside down.) The fifth pope, St. Evaristus, developed the idea of parishes within each diocese ...

I was standing on the same hill where Peter himself—crucified upside down by Nero Caesar—died 2,000 years ago. Today, Caesar's empire is long gone. Peter's Church remains. And today we were ...

Peter the apostle, who came to Rome to spread the gospel, was martyred in this same square, crucified upside down by Emperor Nero. As the hypnotic prayers and haunting music of the funeral mass ...

The history of the upside-down crosses is rooted in the story of St. Peter, considered the first pope. According to tradition, Peter was crucified in Rome around 64 A.D. and requested to be crucified ...

A fisherman turned leading apostle of Jesus, Peter served from around 30 to 64 AD. A man whose death was eerily similar to that of Christ, only that he was crucified upside down under Emperor Nero, ...