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- Aug 3, 2020
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Bishops begin ‘ad limina’ visit with prayers for strength, renewal
- Jan 27, 2020
The bishops of California, Nevada and Hawaii brought their prayers and the prayers of their people to the tomb of St. Peter, asking God to strengthen and renew them in their faith.
Pope wanted apostles’ relics united to encourage Christian unity
- Sep 13, 2019
Pope Francis said giving fragments of St. Peter’s bones to the head of the church founded by Peter’s brother, St. Andrew, was meant to be a reminder and encouragement of the journey toward Christian unity.
Pope gives relics of St. Peter to Orthodox patriarch
- Jul 2, 2019
In what Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople described as a “brave and bold” gesture, Pope Francis gave the patriarch a famous reliquary containing bone fragments believed to belong to St. Peter.
Wuerl tells seminarians to have faith in Christ, the Church in times of confusion
- Sep 24, 2018
In a private Mass for his seminarians, Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington told them to have faith in Christ and the Church in times of confusion.
Bones of St. Peter find a mystery story with Texas oilman at its core
- Jun 26, 2018
The largely unknown story of the American involvement behind the search to find the bones of St. Peter.
It’s not the Great Pumpkin, but for Halloween tale try the Vatican curse
- Oct 31, 2017
Halloween in the United States may be all about candy and scary costumes, but for Italians the dead are no joke. Crux traces back to an ancient curse, buried beneath the walls and ruins of the Vatican in the crypt of St. Peter’s, where a series of unexpected deaths spooked popes and the entire city of Rome for centuries.
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