{"id":27736,"date":"2026-06-26T17:08:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T17:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/27736\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T17:08:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T17:08:06","slug":"rome-the-city-of-saints-peter-and-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/27736\/","title":{"rendered":"Rome: The City of Saints Peter and Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rome\u2019s place at the heart of the Catholic Church begins with the witness of Saints Peter and Paul.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Saint Peter and Saint Paul each arrived in Rome by\u00a0very different\u00a0paths, but both\u00a0ultimately gave\u00a0their lives there in witness to Christ. Their martyrdom forever linked the Eternal City to the foundations of the Church.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thegoodnewsroom.org\/what-is-the-pallium-msgr-luke-sweeney-explains-the-ancient-symbol-of-an-archbishops-ministry\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What Is the Pallium? Msgr. Luke Sweeney Explains the Ancient Symbol of an Archbishop\u2019s Ministry<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Each year on June 29, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul. On that day, Pope Leo XIV will celebrate Mass in St. Peter\u2019s Basilica and confer the pallium upon newly appointed metropolitan archbishops, including Archbishop Hicks. The ancient vestment expresses the communion between metropolitan archbishops and the successor of St. Peter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thegoodnewsroom.org\/archbishop-hicks-looks-ahead-to-receiving-the-pallium-in-rome\/\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Archbishop Hicks Looks Ahead To Receiving the Pallium in Rome<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As pilgrims gather in Rome, the feast points to the mission Christ entrusted to Peter and the Apostles, a mission that continues in the Church today. The witness of Saints Peter and Paul\u00a0remains\u00a0inseparable from the Church\u2019s life and from the city of Rome.<\/p>\n<p>Follow all of The Good Newsroom\u2018s coverage of the pallium events here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rome\u2019s place at the heart of the Catholic Church begins with the witness of Saints Peter and Paul.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[526,19097,19098,18853,2132,19099,19100,19101,19102,19103,27,19104,6436,19105,9008,182],"class_list":["post-27736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rome","tag-pope-leo-xiv","tag-archbishop-hicks","tag-archbishop-ronald-hicks","tag-archdiocese-of-new-york","tag-catholic-church","tag-catholic-explainer","tag-good-shepherd","tag-june-29","tag-metropolitan-archbishop","tag-pallium","tag-rome","tag-saints-peter-and-paul","tag-st-peters-basilica","tag-st-josephs-seminary","tag-the-vatican","tag-vatican"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}