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 ...

VATICAN CITY — The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity is an invitation for us to commit to enriching our everyday relationships by promoting communion, consolation and mercy, Pope Francis said during ...

There are many aspects of faith that are difficult to grasp due to their supernatural nature, faith leaders say. While the concept of the Holy Trinity can be one that is extremely hard for the average ...

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 ...

Photo by RyanJLane on iStock. What is the right relationship between the three persons of the Trinity? It remains a mystery. Even so, this Sunday’s readings offer insights that can help us encounter ...

”God so oved the world that he gave his only son.” Who is this God? One of the images of God that has most captured the Christian imagination comes from Michelangelo’s depiction of the creation of ...

What we celebrate today is rather rare, perhaps even unique in the liturgical year when we go through the ordinary time and the time of special occasions and feasts. Because what we celebrate today is ...

"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 ...

Photo by Sharon Santema, courtesy of Unsplash. In the second week of his 30-day Spiritual Exercises, Ignatius Loyola proposes that the retreatant imagine the Trinity gazing down upon all of humanity.

I want you to imagine two great arches, one inside the other. The inner arch I’ll call “The story we usually tell”; the outer, larger, arch I’m going to call “The more encompassing story”. The story ...