This moment of professing faith is one of the most important recorded in the Bible, and it is when Jesus changes Simon’s name (one who hears) to Peter (rock). The rest of the Apostles are amazed ...

Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came early to the tomb, while it was still dark, and saw the stone already taken away from the tomb. And so she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to ...

We continue looking at the successes of those first 12 disciples of Jesus. Why their successes? Because an emphasis on their failures invites us to feel badly about our own ...

On Oct. 28, the Western church celebrates the feast day of one of the more obscure and lesser-known apostles: St. Simon. The name Simon comes from the Hebrew “Shimon,” which essentially means ...

Jesus renamed Simon, called him “Peter” (the “Rock”), because this was a most important day: the day on which Jesus explained to the apostles the leadership role which Peter would take in ...

During the time Peter was with Jesus, the Bible never mentions his wife traveling with the disciples, which is strange (if this is true), since it mentions many other women (several by name) who ...

The feast of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, whose official name is the joint Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, is the commemoration of the martyrdom in Rome of the apostles Simon Peter and Paul of ...