Truly, at times watching “All Creatures Great and Small” is like visiting Disneyland and thinking Anaheim is amazing when three blocks away families are living in their cars.

The New York Times said that “Wordle is a love story.” In a way, isn’t every online bit and bob that we delight in a love story?

After being tremendously excited by the first two episodes, right now I have to admit, I suddenly have a bad feeling about this.

Each of these practices can be done in two to five minutes and require no religious background. And I promise that over time, they really can improve your life.

In the end, what undermines “Don’t Look Up” is exactly what it condemns: a lack of humanity.

“My hope for L.G.B.T. Catholics is that they all feel welcome and comfortable in any parish in the world,” Sister Gramick says. “That they might feel just as much a part of the church as anyone else.”

In a handwritten letter, Pope Francis congratulated Sister Gramick on “50 years of closeness, of compassion and of tenderness” in a ministry that he described as being in “the style of God.”

We don’t expect to see a Muppet so completely lose it. But today of all days, Elmo reminds us that it is totally appropriate to call out what is only pretend and say, “No, that’s not right.”

Seeing these shows, I was reminded of Dickens’s famous ghosts, warning us about where we have been, where we are and where, if we’re not careful, we may be headed.

Worst. Christmas. Ever.