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 ...

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?” ...

Find today’s readings here. In the collect for the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter, the church prays to God “that no tempests may disturb us, for you have set us fast on the rock of the ...

St. Ephraim of Syria ("Homily 4," c. 351 A.D.) "In the city of Rome the episcopal chair was given first to Peter, the chair in which Peter sat, the same who was head--that is why he is also called ...