“So much anger here over St. Peter’s role.”
For myself it’s not anger but puzzlement. I’d venture that 90+% of Catholics are Gentiles, yet among them they anchor to one of God’s apostles to the JEWS. It is PAUL who was chosen by Christ to preach “my gospel”—the one he received directly from the risen Jesus—to the Gentiles (most likely you).
It seems that re: Peter, Catholics stop after the Gospels. It was Paul whom the Spirit used to confront Peter and frankly knock down the idea that he and James, et. al were the “pillars” they seemed to be vis a vis Paul’s supposedly lesser role.
He tartly adds “Those men added nothing to my message” and “God shows no partiality”.
There is no attempt to negate Peter’s role to the Jews, but Paul vigorously defends his to the Gentiles. God was working through both, but Catholics appear not to have gotten the memo that Paul is THEIR apostle. Thirteen (perhaps fourteen) letters in the NT to Peter’s two (maybe one?)?
I think you're mistaken about Catholic Gentiles not getting the "memo" that Paul is "our" Apostle.
As far as can be ascertained by (admittedly traces of) evidence, ALL of the Apostles went to the Gentiles. Even Peter, the "Apostle to the Jews," and James who was head of the Church in Jerusalem and martyred there, ministered also to Gentiles.
As far as we know (and some of this is based on physical traces --- buildings, graves, steles and other monuments --- which have now long been destroyed, especially in what are now Muslim lands) --- various apostles ministered and died in Spain, in Rome, in Egypt, in Jerusalem, in Scythia and Parthia, in Ethiopia, in Armenia, in western Assyria and the Nineveh plain, and on various Greek islands.
They all ministered both to Gentiles and to Jews in various cities in the Roman Empire and even beyond the borders of the Empire.
I'm not going into a lot of detail, because I don't think we know a lot of detail. I just read ISIS ransacked Mosul Museum and destroyed ancient manuscripts and books in its library, dynamited churches and bulldozed the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud.