Michelangelo’s iconic God the Father image, painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, draws on the Hebrew Bible’s patriarchal God tradition. In Deuteronomy 32:6 Moses explicitly refers to God as ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass on July 15 in the chapel at the Carabinieri (a form of military police) station in Castel ...

This God, the One who was with God, face to face with God, in the bosom of the Father from all eternity—this One has made him known to us. In verse 14 is the linchpin of this whole passage.

The image of God as the father of us all is an enduring one throughout the ages, writes Paul Prather. Pictured, "The Creation of Adam" by Michaelangelo. Vieriu Adrian Getty Images/iStockphoto ...