Vatican City, Nov 9, 2024 / 06:00 am. For the first time in over a century, the historic Chair of St. Peter, a wooden throne symbolizing the pope’s magisterial authority, has been removed from ...

Vatican City, Feb 22, 2025 / 11:00 am. 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 ‘Latin Yankee’ Takes Rome Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost, arrives on the main central loggia balcony of St. Peter's Basilica for the first time after the cardinals end the ...

Also restored is the Chair of St. Peter, ... are undergoing similar clean-up efforts ahead of the expected 35 million visitors who will come to Rome in 2025. At St. Peter's, ...

Just beside it, at at 7 p.m. Rome time, Pope Francis opened the Holy Door, or Porta Santa, symbolizing the path to salvation, and entered to begin the traditional midnight Mass at St. Peter's.

Most people think the Pope's church is St. Peter's Basilica. But as the Bishop of Rome, his actual seat is in a church on the other side of Rome called St. John Lateran.

St. Peter’s Basilica, including the Vatican Grottoes, houses the remains of approximately 90 of Rome’s popes. The rest are scattered throughout other places of worship in the Vatican, Rome ...

As the most Rev. Michael McGovern, Archbishop of Omaha, accepted a vestment signifying his role as a shepherd of the Catholic Church during Mass in Rome, he felt closer than ...

Some Italian media suspect the French president of maneuvering alongside the Catholic movement Sant'Egidio, which was close to the late pope, to push their candidates onto the Chair of Saint Peter.

Instead, he chose St. Mary Major, a basilica on the other side of Rome. It's the first time in more than a century that a pope will be buried outside the Vatican walls.

The informational sign near the chair in St. Peter’s Basilica informs visitors that “shortly after the year 1000, the Cathedra Petri began to be venerated as a relic of the seat used by the ...