This week on “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle gives a summary of the pope’s Christmas messages, which focused on the theme of humility.
Christmas
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Christmas 2021 was a dumpster fire. Can we still find beauty in it?
Worst. Christmas. Ever.
Posted inAdvent Reflections, Faith
“And he named him Jesus” or, “Notes on a Scandal”
Can we allow this truth, this person named Jesus—this God for whom love alone is credible—to truly possess our hearts in the year ahead?
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis prays Christmas will bring yearning for peace, dialogue
“The Word became flesh in order to dialogue with us,” he insisted. “God does not desire to carry on a monologue, but a dialogue. For God himself—Father, Son and Holy Spirit—is dialogue, an eternal and infinite communion of love and life.”
Posted inFaith, Pope Francis Homilies
Pope Francis at Midnight Mass: God comes into the world in littleness.
This is what we should ask Jesus for at Christmas: the grace of littleness.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
If you receive the gift of Christmas, you give it away
The gospel is more recipe than record. The only way you know that you have received the gift of Christmas is to live in love.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
‘Home Alone’ is a Christmas movie about the rich—and why they deserve our generosity too
In an inversion of the typical Yuletide tale, characters who have much less than the McCallisters generously provide them with assistance.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
We need new ways of telling Jesus’ birth story to our children—and to ourselves
I wanted children to hear the story of the nativity through the eyes of a child, not the experience of an adult. And so the character of Leah began to take flight in my imagination; I wanted my young readers to see the first Christmas through her eyes.
Posted inFaith, Music
The Case for Listening to Christmas Carols After December 25
Christmas is a season of blessing. So do not put away the carols (or the lights) until you have to.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
‘It’s a Wonderful Life.’ It really is, according to the Gospels
“It’s a Wonderful Life” is the Gospel transposed onto celluloid. The message is the same in both.