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‘Are Those Table Runners?’ Asked the Woman Who’d Lost Everything Just Before Christmas
December 21, 2020
She had her left leg on one of those little scooters people use when they’ve broken an ankle. She’d asked the clerk at St. Vincent de Paul to take a drip coffee maker out of the box. It was new, still in the wrapping, and cost about $2.00, maybe $3.00. Everything’s sold as is and
Christmas at the end of the world
December 19, 2020
The desire to praise and the carrying about of our mortality – our death – with us: these are constants of nature after the Fall, and always come to us admixed almost indiscriminately.
Christmas: a time for taking time
December 16, 2020
The habit of starting celebrations too soon and finishing them too soon is the worst aspect of a secular Christmas. The great thing is to start your own celebrations on Christmas Eve and keep them going right through the Twelve Days.
The Vatican’s Embarrassing SciFi Creche
December 13, 2020
It is not what we expected, and not what most of us want. This year’s Vatican creche has been laughed at and ridiculed for looking like a science fiction story or children’s toys. One figure was often described as looking like Darth Vader, though to me he looks more like a Sontaran from Doctor Who.
Keeping Time: Advent traditions
December 07, 2020
The liturgical season of Advent has given rise to many great traditions, from the election of the Boy Bishop, to St Nicholas, to Carolling.
The Christmas message: not commercial enough for Washington
December 29, 2017
The city's transit authority said it could only run a Christmas ad by the Archdiocese if it was more 'commercial'
Without Jesus, there is no Christmas, says Pope Francis
December 27, 2017
‘If we take him away, the lights go out and everything becomes fake,’ Holy Father says
Queen’s Christmas message: I am inspired by Christ’s generous love and example
December 25, 2017
'We remember the birth of Jesus Christ, whose only sanctuary was a stable in Bethlehem. He knew rejection, hardship and persecution.'
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