Jeanie Hannaman

By Fr. Brian A. Graebe, The Catholic Thing - This year marks the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, arguably the most consequential gathering in Christian history. The still-young Church, then emerging from centuries of persecution, found itself torn apart by a debate over the identity of Jesus Christ... The crisis began when a priest from Alexandria in Egypt named Arius argued – contrary to the long-standing but as-yet-undefined Catholic position – that the Son, the Second Person of the Trinity, was created by God the Father. For the Arians, Jesus was the highest creature, the closest to the Father, but was not co-equal and co-eternal with Him.