When the day came that my niece could finally adopt the two children who had been in her foster care, they celebrated their day of becoming a “forever family” as the greatest of their lives. They ...

It was a balmy Trinity Sunday and the door of the old neighborhood church was open. Four of us were taking a shortcut through the back streets of Bologna, rushing to get to a nearby tourist attraction ...

The lectionary isn’t exactly subtle this week. It’s Trinity Sunday, so we read two of the most obvious articulations of triune identity in all of scripture—the Great Commission and the Pauline ...

Here are the opening lines of the herem, the philosopher Spinoza’s excommunication from the Amsterdam synagogue. With the judgment of the angels and with that of the saints, we put under herem, ...

To my mind, the Trinity should not be preached or celebrated as such. That seems to suggest that we can comprehend the Trinity, count it among our concepts. But we cannot because the Trinity is not ...

VATICAN CITY — On the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, Pope Francis said unity is essential to Christian life because God is a communion of love. “This mystery of the Trinity was revealed to us by ...

The Church reflects on the mystery of God himself — one God in Three Persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit — on the first Sunday after concluding the joyous season of Easter with Pentecost. (For ...