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Christmas
Discover stories and spiritual wisdom for the Christmas season, from Advent preparation to the joy and mystery of Christ’s birth.
A number of years ago I heard a friend of mine from the Philippines listening to Christmas music in September. When I inquired why he was listening to...
December feels like the soft landing every year could use. While January is often propelled by a crazed monster of executive function—New Year’s resolutions...
Christmas celebrates a love so amazing it is beyond imagination and words. But what can this feast tell us about who the Catholic faith community is called to...
I can still smell the shoe box full of fresh cut grass. This was no ordinary grass. It was part of the treats we set out every January 5 for the magi to feed...
On December 9, 1965, 49 percent of the televisions in America tuned in to CBS for a new Christmas program created by Bill Melendez, Lee Mendelson, and Charles...
Santa Claus is a year-round favorite in our house. My 2-year-old spent most of this past summer in a red shirt emblazoned with Santa’s jolly face. He even...
This Christmas will be lonely and quiet for many of us. I wonder how those of us who love to celebrate the holidays through the gift of food and joy of cooking...
For modern Catholics, Advent is a season of extreme cultural disjunction between commercialized Christmas and the spiritual preparation for Christ’s birth. The...
Of all the homilies I have preached, the one that aroused some of the most impassioned objections was one I gave on the Epiphany. I wondered aloud about the...
