The Apostle Simon Peter and the communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin were men separated by thousands of years of history. Yet both experienced a life-changing traumatic event in their lives. How ...

Fides Agency publishes the homily delivered by Cardinal Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle today, Friday, April 25, during Holy Mass—which he presided over—celebrated with the working community of the Dicastery ...

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 discipleship, robbing us of ...

Opera del Santa Marial Del Fiore, Sala del Paradiso, Florence. Source: Christian Art. Gospel of 27 December 2025 John 20:2-8.

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 the ...

Find today’s readings here. Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard John and followed Jesus. He first found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah,” ...

“Now Simon’s mother-in-law lay sick with a fever, and immediately they told him of her. And he came and took her by the hand and lifted her up, and the fever left her; and she served them.” (Mark 1:30 ...