PASSAGE ON PETER'S BOAT 

AT THE end of the day, we want to take passage on the Barque of Peter, that is to say, to secure a berth on Peter’s boat. It is the Church, you see, whose bow cleaves the vicissitudes of time and space, and whose brilliant wake leaves an enduring record of its one-way voyage to the heavenly Jerusalem, a Sacred Tradition that never disappears into the agitated foam of an unremembered era.