The selection process for a new Pope will formally begin tomorrow, and the top contenders all have one thing in common – they ...

COMMENTARY: It’s worth noting that the Pauline Chapel, one of three in the Apostolic Palace, is pictured in the Holy Father’s ...

According to Ann Ball in her book, HANDBOOK OF CATHOLIC SACRAMENTALS ... The eleven pipers piping stood for the eleven faithful Apostles. The twelve drummers drumming symbolized the twelve ...

The Catholic Church has specific theological ... Catholics hold that Christ chose only men to be his 12 apostles, and since the pope is seen as the successor of St. Peter, this creates a ...

St. Peter, the first pope and one of the 12 apostles, was renamed from his birth ... in the history of Catholicism at the Centre for Catholic Studies at Durham University. After the 10th century ...

A. St. Paul was an Apostle, but as he was not called till after the Ascension of Our Lord he is not numbered among the twelve. He is called the Apostle of the Gentiles; that is, of all those who ...