St. Peter: Buffoon or Hero? Each year on this Feast of the Transfiguration of Jesus, I think about St. Peter and wonder if he was a buffoon or a bold, brave hero. Putting aside for a moment that the man is a saint, we are told enough about Peter to wonder about the man…buffoon or hero? They are mutually exclusive descriptions, right? Or could Peter be both a buffoon and a bold and brave hero? Certainly his reply to Christ’s query, “Who do they say that I am?” is far more than heroic… But on this second Sunday of Lent, […]