EAST CHICAGO — When the Rev. Alphonse Skerl celebrates his final Mass Oct. 23 at Holy Trinity Hungarian Catholic Church it will be an occasion of historic significance.

The church is just finishing up the paintings that adorn its interior walls. Holy Trinity’s old church was destroyed by a fire in 2015, and it rebuilt a much bigger church that opened in 2019.

What the Catechism of the Catholic Church says on "The Trinity:" 232. "Christians are baptized 'in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit' [Mt 28:19.] Before ...

On June 20, 1943, 53 adults and seven children chartered Holy Trinity during a service at the Cocke County Courthouse. The ...