According to the New Testament, Jesus founded the papacy by handpicking one of his 12 apostles, St. Peter, to be the “rock” upon which he would build his church. Over the next two millennia, a ...
In 2015, the late Pope Francis held an outdoor mass for an estimated 6 million to 7 million Filipinos gathered in a park in Manila. It was the largest papal audience in history and proved that a visit ...