St. Athanasius, celebrated on May 2, was a fourth-century bishop who is known as “the father of orthodoxy” for his dedication to the doctrine of Christ’s divinity.

Auxiliary Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Astana, Kazakhstan, greets Pope Francis in his car after a meeting with bishops, priests, deacons, consecrated persons, seminarians and pastoral workers at ...

His beliefs about the person of Christ were always in service to the work of Christ. In other words, without the full divinity and humanity of Jesus, he argued, the gospel is powerless to save: an ...

Athanasius saw that if the Arian belief in Christ as an exalted creature won the day, the gospel itself would be lost. Two of Athanasius' central points bear repeating: Only God can save.