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Fr. Charles Fox: The Power of Christ and the Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Fr. Charles Fox: The Power of Christ and the Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter

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By Fr. Charles Fox, Catholic World Report

Rev. Charles Fox is an assistant professor of theology at Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit. He holds an S.T.D. in dogmatic theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum), Rome. He is also chaplain and a board member of Saint Paul Street Evangelization, headquartered in Warren, MI.

(Note: This essay was posted originally on February 22, 2024.)

For those of us who are passengers on the Barque of Peter, the Catholic Church, our confidence is infallibly well-founded, because the Divine Passenger Who accompanies us is inviolable.

On April 19, 2005, I was in the fifth of my six years of seminary formation,  serving as an intern at a rural parish in the northeastern part of the Archdiocese of Detroit. That morning, I was to accompany my pastor to a vicariate clergy meeting at a nearby parish. …

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