"He who worked through Peter for the mission to the circumcised worked through [Paul] also for the Gentiles." (Gal 2:8)

Today the Church celebrates The Feast of Saints Peter and Paul. They are remembered together as the "pillars of the Church." The feast also has special significance in recent years, as it has been a day when the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople meets with the Holy Father to pray for the unity of East and West.

For this year, there is a Solemn Mass of the Feast, during which time Benedict XVI will bless and impose the pallium on 32 newly-appointed Metropolitan Archbishops.