Fr. Brian A. Graebe: One Creed to Unite Them All

By Fr. Brian A. Graebe, The Catholic Thing, February 13, 2025

Fr. Brian A. Graebe, S.T.D., is a priest of the Archdiocese of New York. He is the author of Vessel of Honor: The Virgin Birth and the Ecclesiology of Vatican II (Emmaus Academic).

Note: Be sure to tune in tonight – Thursday, February 13th at 8 PM Eastern – to EWTN for a new episode of the Papal Posse on ‘The World Over.’ TCT Editor-in-Chief Robert Royal and contributor Fr. Gerald E. Murray will join host Raymond Arroyo to discuss the health of Pope Francis, the pope’s reaction to the immigration policies of President Trump, and other issues in the global Church. Check your local listings for the channel in your area. Shows are usually available shortly after first airing on the EWTN YouTube channel.

This year marks the 1,700^th 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.

The debate was not limited to the ivory tower: it divided dioceses and towns throughout the Roman Empire, many of them with competing Arian and Catholic churches and bishops. Seeing that this confusion threatened his precarious hold on power, the emperor Constantine convened the world’s bishops in the city of Nicaea, in modern-day Turkey, to settle the matter in a definitie way. Thus came about the first ecumenical, or universal, council in Church history. ….

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By Fr. Brian A. Graebe, The Catholic Thing, February 13, 2025

This year marks the 1,700^th 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.

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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.

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This year marks the 1,700^th 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.