***Speaking of candor, how come your own magisterium has withheld the truth about the discovery of the ossuary of Simon Bar Jonah on the Mount of Olives in the monastery of Dominus Flevit?***
Maybe because the monastery of Dominus Flevit doesn't hold the bones of Simon Bar-Jonah? We can question your assertion of his burial on the Mount of Olives just as much as you question his burial at the Vatican. Just because someone says the bones are Peter's doesn't make it so, but there HAS been a tradition for 2,000 years that he was buried in Rome, and there hasn't been a tradition for his burial on the Mount of Olives. Maybe the monastery was trying to drum up some pilgrimage trade and suddenly "discovered" some bones? Maybe the monastery was trying to undermine the authority of the Holy Father with this "discovery." It makes as much sense as your theory of Simon Magus being buried under the Vatican!
Maybe because the monastery of Dominus Flevit doesn't hold the bones of Simon Bar-Jonah?
Oh no --- did they lose them too?
We can question your assertion of his burial on the Mount of Olives just as much as you question his burial at the Vatican. Just because someone says the bones are Peter's doesn't make it so
Oh I forgot --- you only believe what the magisterium tell you to believe.
but there HAS been a tradition for 2,000 years that he was buried in Rome,
Tradition but no bones, right??? So when Tradition comes up against hard cold physical facts of life, the Church tell you to stick with Tradition, right?
and there hasn't been a tradition for his burial on the Mount of Olives.
There has been for atleast 50 years, but you're not supposed to know about it --- Ssshhhh
Maybe the monastery was trying to drum up some pilgrimage trade and suddenly "discovered" some bones?
You mean like doing what Catholic religious sites have traditionally done?
Maybe the monastery was trying to undermine the authority of the Holy Father with this "discovery."
Oh really??? Like they were actually on a sacred quest to discover the bones of St Peter on the grounds of their monastery. They were discovered by accident.
It makes as much sense as your theory of Simon Magus being buried under the Vatican!
The bones make more sense than your magisterial wizards.