Pope Francis raises the Book of the Gospels as he celebrates Holy Thursday chrism Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican April 13. (CNS/Paul Haring) Pope Francis today reminded the Catholic world ...

The Transfiguration is this Sunday, a scene that many preachers (color me guilty) get wrong, but Peter (no matter how many times we make him the patsy in the story) gets right. Here’s a transfigured ...

Painting by Johann Georg Trautmann depicting Jesus appearing before Caiphus (middle-right), and Peter denying that he knew Jesus (bottom left). Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. “Get behind me, Satan.” ...

Peter was far from perfect. There was a time when his faith wavered and another when he lied under pressure. “Peter was the devoted and fallible follower of Christ,” says the Rev. John “Bud” Traylor, ...

One Protestant argument I have encountered holds that because Scripture elsewhere calls Jesus Christ a “Rock” — therefore (so the reasoning goes) Peter can’t possibly be called the same thing. This ...

In two key passages of the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus leaves his Church with two great gifts. The first (Matthew 16:19) is addressed to St. Peter: I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and ...

The mark of a good wonder-worker is his similarity to wonder-workers of the past. Though Jesus exceeded Moses in teaching authority, his miraculous acts are patterned after his prophetic forebears ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...