VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict reflected on the mystery of the Incarnation during his general audience Jan. 9, calling it the “original gift of Christmas.” “On that holy night, God becoming flesh, ...

As we saw in previous articles in this series, before creation the three Persons of the Trinity were infinitely enjoying and loving one another from eternity past. This Three-In-One God created the ...

Of the great soteriological facts of the Christian faith — Creation, the Fall, the Incarnation, the Passion, Death and Resurrection, and the Eschaton — it is the Incarnation that is the most Catholic.

Whoever tied Easter to the spring equinox made a very good decision. For those who are so inclined, there is no better time for feeling alive, as the whole world wakes from winter and makes new birth ...

In place of a Stoic doctrine of human brotherhood or a definition of the nature of man, the parable of the Good Samaritan grounded philanthropy in a theological conception that saw human love as ...

(RNS) Jews believe God cannot become human, and humans cannot become God. But sometimes we transcend that distance through prayer and worship, through the study of sacred texts and through altruistic ...

On the second day of Christmas, during a painful biopsy on my left breast, I realized that I wasn’t fully on board with the incarnation. In the Episcopal Church’s lectionary, the Gospel reading on the ...

BETHANY (33 AD) — In a special celebration held in the home of Mary of Bethany, numerous friends and acquaintances of Jesus of Nazareth gathered to celebrate the Galilean's 33rd year as God Incarnate.

Christianity believes that Jesus Christ is the pre-existent Word of God and that He Himself took a body from the Virgin Mary and became perfect man without abandoning His divinity: "That which was ...