Truth & Tradition

Where Peter Is, There Is the Church

Homily of Bishop Roy on the Imperfect General Council. During the Christmas season, I sent you a link to a story I wrote for bishops and priests to encourage them to consider the present situation of the Church. As we enter this new year, I think it is very important that we all reflect on these questions. So, this story was written in the form of a novella. Therefore, it was perhaps not as clear as it should have been for some of you. That is why I thought that today, on this first day of the year, I would address some of these subjects. You know that we are Catholics. We are Roman Catholics. That is our true name. We believe that the See of Peter is the center of our Catholic faith, the rock upon which the Church of our Lord Jesus Christ was established. There is no other rock that has been given to the Church than the rock of Peter. Nevertheless, we are witnesses today to something terrible: the fact that this rock is under siege, that the persons occupying the throne of Peter are in reality destroyers of the Church. And, whether we like it or not, this has been the case for 70 years, almost 70 years. We have gone from destruction to destruction.