Today we celebrate the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter. A non-Catholic (and some Catholics) might ask: “What’s so special about Peter’s Chair? Are we next going to have “St. Paul’s bed?” ...

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 ...

Also restored is the Chair of St. Peter, an important symbol of Papal authority. Father Fortunato said that this chair has witnessed many papacies, dating back to 875 AD. For those who cannot ...

For Francis, yesterday—Chair of Saint Peter's Day, which commemorates the founding of the Church of Rome by the apostle Peter and papal authority—was an extremely tough day, the worst in nine ...