[Uncle Chip]

Even if they told the truth it is meaningless since, as demonstrated with the infamous James ossuary box, there are many of these floating around, passed off as genuine, and even if genuine according to name they are not genuine according to name’s sake.

These artifacts are under the control of the Israeli Antiquities Authority which is able to discern between genuine and fakes ---- something that the magisterium in the Vatican seems incapable of with all of its Peter bones floating around. And the Israelis know how to read Hebrew inscriptions on ossuaries quite well ---

[vladimir998]

You wrote:

“These artifacts are under the control of the Israeli Antiquities Authority which is able to discern between genuine and fakes ——”

Maybe they do, maybe they don’t. You seem to be missing the point, however. The box may be genuine according to name, but not according to name’s sake. In other words, the box may really have belonged to a man named Simon Bar Jonah. That doesn’t mean it belonged to Simon Peter.

“... something that the magisterium in the Vatican seems incapable of with all of its Peter bones floating around.”

There are no “all of its Peter bones” floating around.

“And the Israelis know how to read Hebrew inscriptions on ossuaries quite well -—”

So do others. Also, you are staking your claim on the conclusions of a Catholic priest who knew Hebrew and not any Israeli. Did you forget that already?