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My purpose in posting this thread was to provide the archaelogical background on St. Peter's. How unfortunate that some guests have used it as an opportunity to bash the Catholic Church. Catholic freepers show respect for those from other religious denominations. Yet those who profess to be christians, use certain threads to launch salvos at catholic freepers. Perhaps you mothers never taught you proper christian manners: "If you don't have something nice to say, then don't say anything at all."

My purpose in posting this thread was to provide the archaelogical background on St. Peter's.

Whoop-dee-do.

Catholic freepers show respect for those from other religious denominations.

That was funny. Tell me another one.

Yet those who profess to be christians, use certain threads to launch salvos at catholic freepers.

And Catholics don't do the same. Boy are you naive. Besides, didn't know I professed to be a Christian.

Perhaps you mothers never taught you proper christian manners: "If you don't have something nice to say, then don't say anything at all."

Its called disagreement. I know you have a hisotry of getting that word confused with bashing. Sorry we exercise free speech in here.

Re: "My purpose in posting this thread was to provide the archaeological background on St. Peter's. How unfortunate that some guests have used it as an opportunity to bash the Catholic Church"

Perhaps I can help explain the reasons for the attacks. The archaeological evidence is a threat to long held and cherished views.

My purpose in posting this thread was to provide the archaelogical background on St. Peter's. How unfortunate that some guests have used it as an opportunity to bash the Catholic Church. Catholic freepers show respect for those from other religious denominations. Yet those who profess to be christians, use certain threads to launch salvos at catholic freepers. Perhaps you mothers never taught you proper christian manners: "If you don't have something nice to say, then don't say anything at all."

It is not "Catholic Bashing" when you are called on a falsehood. You tell a story and others have a right to tell a different story.

The most precious of Peter's bones found in the Graffiti Wall are the 29 fragments of the Apostle's skull. Note: the 29 pieces of Peter's skull found in the Grafitti Wall are not to be confused with Peter's other skull, which is stored in the Cathedral of St. John Lateran.

How many skulls did Peter have?

"How unfortunate that some guests have used it as an opportunity to bash the Catholic Church. Catholic freepers show respect for those from other religious denominations."

NYer, I hope you weren't directing this at me. As a result of our long series of personal e-mails, I think you know exactly where I'm coming from, and that I do not "bash" the Catholic Church. My goal is to understand the Catholic Church. If you can find "Catholic Bashing" in my posts, please let me know where. That isn't my intent. Conversely, when you say "Catholic freepers show respect for those from other religious denominations," I think you need to review the posts on this thread. I'll assume CouncilofTrent is Catholic. His first post to me was "Go away!" Pio's post was clearly disrespectful. And I haven't read the rest of the thread after your post. But clearly, "bashing" is not unilateral.

I found the archaelogical background on St. Peter's interesting. But when the article is led by a quote such as the one that led off this article, it is kind of hard to ignore.