Many of Christianity’s staunches opponents point to the doctrine of the Trinity as not only irrational, but a wholly novel Christian invention that even the Apostles didn’t hold. Predictably, I ...

At the Sunday Angelus, the pope prayed for “a just and lasting peace” as the Church closed a monthlong Marian appeal for ...

We draw the Easter season to a close by celebrating the Ascension of the Lord, and then Pentecost, and then the Solemnity of ...

Father Joshua J. Whitfield shares a reflection on the readings and Gospel for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, May 31, ...

This Sunday is Trinity Sunday, which is appropriately observed after Pentecost and the coming of the Holy Spirit. It is important that we not treat the Trinity as an appendix to the Christian doctrine ...

The Trinity — the Life of God himself — is a mystery, as no doubt many a homily today will declare. That’s true: we can and never will penetrate that reality, even if our hope is fulfilled, we are ...

Sunday, June 16, is the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. Mass readings: Proverbs 8:22-31; Psalm 8:4-9; Romans 5:1-5; John 16:12-15. While no mystery surpasses that of the nature of the Most Holy ...

"The Word was God.....The Word became flesh and dwelt among us" (John 1:1,14). "No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to ...

Tomorrow is the Day of Holy Trinity. The Church reflects on and celebrates God’s essence. However, for many of us the concept of Trinity is difficult to grasp: the three personas of God as Father, ...

Kathryn Tanner's first book, God and Creation in Christian Theology (1988), was technical, austere and tremendously important. Tanner argued that most modern theology gets the relation of God and ...