Our long national nightmare is over. A presidency that began with the Big Lie that Barack Obama wasn’t born in the US and, therefore, was an illegitimate president and ended with the Big Lie that Joe Biden stole the election is now confined to history. And history, we can rest assured, will not judge that […]
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Growing up in a conventional Catholic home in 1950’s America, I experienced the Christmas manger display as central to the holiday celebration, more so even than Santa Claus and the Christmas tree. Santa–more formally, St. Nicholas–and the tree were both recognized as honored traditions of the season, but the manger scene–set in a straw-covered, stable-like
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We live in anxious times. Christmas is traditionally a season of peace, when even hardened warriors have been known to lay down their arms in honor of the day’s solemnity and celebrate the oneness of humanity with a temporary truce. Yet these are truly anxious times. We are beseiged from all sides by calls to war
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