Podcasts Culture Get Ready for Rome The Triumph of the Church in St. Peter’s Basilica

The Triumph of the Church in St. Peter’s Basilica

Published: Feb. 9, 2021, 5 p.m.

We return today to St. Peter's Basilica and do an inventory of the contents of its nave, aisles, and transept. Do its many chapels, altars, statues, and funeral monuments have a unifying theme? I think so. It is the Triumph of the Catholic Church, which then draws our attention to the Protestant Reformation, then raging in Europe as St. Peter's was being built.