The Vatican did not respond to a request for ... In the context of the Catholic Church, the inverted cross is a reference to the crucifixion of Saint Peter, who is considered the first pontiff.

Horvath said she was wearing a St. Brigid’s cross during a briefing on the January 2025 wildfires and not an “inverted” cross, as posts online misleadingly claimed. The wildfires in and ...

The intelligence of the cross ... ‘throne of grace in order to receive mercy and find grace, so as to be helped at the appropriate time.’” Hannah Brockhaus is Catholic News Agency’s senior ...