“I want to travel lightly, unencumbered, with my arms and heart open wide, ready to be surprised.”
Christina Capecchi: How to travel lightly: the great de-clutter
Bring hope to others, justice for the poor, pope says at Christmas Mass
“The church supports and blesses efforts to change the structures of injustice and sets down but one condition: that social, economic and political change truly benefit the poor,” the pope said, quoting St. Oscar Romero.
Christmas ‘hijacked’ by consumerist mentality, pope says
Christmas must not be confused with “ephemeral things” that reduce the celebration of Christ’s birth “to a merely sentimental or consumerist festival,” the pope said Dec. 23 during his weekly general audience.
Greg Erlandson: Calling a truce in the war on holly jolly
“The holly jolly is all the accoutrement of Christmas that has virtually nothing to do with the Christ Child’s arrival. It is all the stuff that, well, really ticked off the Grinch.”
Greg Erlandson – Advent: Can we do it?
Advent liturgies speak to us of a message of reform and hope.