No doubt it was by design that God placed his most scholarly apostle under the authority of a man of lesser birth, but it’s noteworthy that, unlike St. Peter, he didn’t require a lengthy ...

Because he followed Jesus before St. Peter and the others, he is called the “Protoklete” or “First-Called” apostle ... first published by the National Catholic Register on Nov. 27 ...

Some believe the basilica on Vatican Hill was built over the martyred bones of the apostle ... St. Peter and, even more important, his bones. Given the importance of the relics within the Catholic ...