Let's keep Uncle Sam out of the nativity scene by reinforcing the wall between church and state. Our varied beliefs can bring us together to feed the...
Christmas
This year, hand on heart, I saw Christmas decorations for sale on October 1. When I was little, we didn’t even start thinking about Christmas until after...
I don’t have pictures of myself sitting terrified on Santa’s lap. Despite his slow but certain infiltration into the traditional Spanish Christmas...
Christmas is a time for giving–and it’s a perfect time for fair trade. Fair trade allows you to give twice: first in buying a product and then in...
The Christmas my daughter was 6 and my son was 3 was probably the low point. Not that it lacked anything, you understand. Quite the contrary. There were...
Christmas Day of the year of the Lord 2000. Two thousand years of the reality of the Incarnation of God in human flesh, the coming of the holy into our midst...
Learning scripture in the land of the Bible changes the way you read it, says Sister Laurie Brink, O.P., who leads study tours to places such as Bethlehem...
What parent doesn't want to make their children's wishes come true at Christmas, to see their little eyes light up as they tear off the wrapping paper...
Thanksgiving, and in some places Halloween, is barely over these days before stores begin to play Christmas songs as background sound for the orgy of buying...
By Mary Clare Brady This article appeared in the December 1993 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 58, No. 12, pages 31-33). “It was the best of times, it was the...
