Christmas tree

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Meeting with delegations from Castelli in Italy’s Abruzzo region and from Kocevje, Slovenia — responsible, respectively, for the Nativity scene and Christmas tree in St. Peter’s Square — the pope said that Christmas “reminds us that Jesus is our peace, our joy, our strength, our comfort.”

Sometimes symbols can express what words don’t do justice to. For me, one such symbol is a cut-out Christmas tree.