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60 Years as the Hometown Santa Claus

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A New Jersey Catholic man has been Santa Claus for 60 years.

Why one Catholic New Jersey native still dons the red hat at Christmas

A Little Girl’s Christmas Gift to Jesus

Baby Jesus

COMMENTARY: My favorite part of the day was when I would lie beneath the tree, gazing upwards at the bubble lights. I cupped the Baby Jesus from the manger in my hands and imagined holding the real Infant in my arms.

A Christmas I Will Never Forget

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‘Polish Christmas Dinner’

COMMENTARY: A Polish Christmas Eve tradition, kept year after year, came to life in a way none of us expected.

Christmas and the Tyranny of the Possible

James Tissot, “The Magi in the House of Herod,” Brooklyn Museum, New York

COMMENTARY: The Incarnation exposes how often ‘realism’ confuses political limits with divine possibility.

Our Christmas Mission

The Child in the manger sends us out to announce his presence, Msgr. Roger Landry reminds us.

COMMENTARY: Christmas is a celebration when the Church seeks to renew in every baptized Catholic the call to go out, to announce, to witness, to share the joy that Jesus has brought into the world.