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Recall that Aquinas 'baptized' Aristotle, and somewhere along the line, Ari/Aquinas declared that all perfections are in God.

Therefore, JPII's remark that the Trinity is a perfect family makes all the sense in the world. Another way to put it might be that the Trinity possesses all the perfections, which applies to its 'family-ness.'

There's nothing exceptionable here, although my phrasing (like Hahn's ) may be clumsy.

I would agree the Trinity is a perfect family if you mean that it possesses all perfection. But the Holy Spirit is far more than just "love".

According to scripture the Holy Spirit possesses all the same characteristics as God the Father and our Lord Jesus. He performed miracles (Matt 1:18), He has his own form (Matt 3:16), He leds us (Matt 4:1), He helps us to witness (Matt 10:20), He helps us to fight against Satan (Matt 12:38), speaking against the Spirit is cause for damnation (Matt 12:32), perfect praise which we offer comes from the Spirit (Matt 22:43), and we should be baptized into the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (Matt 28:19).

And that's only what Matthew has to say about Him. I think it is an eggressous error to think that the Holy Spirit is nothing more than love between the Father and Son. And just like God the Father and God the Son, God the Holy Spirit also is a God of Wrath as Ananias and Sapphira found out (Acts 5).

The Holy Spirit is a member of the Trinity containing all attributes as God the Father and God the Son. I'm a firm believer that the Holy Spirit in our lives is seldom recognized, underappreciated and rarely utilized. Including my own.