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Christmas symbols are in the eye of the beholder
… Haught … Religion News Service … Marxtine Gross, right, and other staff members choose giving tree ornaments from the Christmas tree at the headquarters of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington Dec. 5. (CNS photo/Nancy Phelan Wiechec) Marxtine Gross, right, and other staff members choose giving tree ornaments from the Christmas tree at the headquarters of the U.S. Conference of Catholic …
From wheat to war -- a life for the poor
… day, and the noonday almost-winter sun shed clear light on the people and the simple Christmas tree in the corner. As closing time drew near, a group at the end of the line began singing a …
A Jewish Christmas? Some say 'Oy Tannenbaum'
… party this year. As her family has for decades, Dinkelspiel will exchange presents, decorate a tree and invite friends over for Christmas Eve. Dec. 25 has no religious significance for … your home," he said. Still, 9 percent of Jewish households in America decorate a Christmas tree each year, and another 8 percent said they usually or sometimes do, according to the 2000 … cities released last year found that 2 percent of Jewish households always have a Christmas tree, with about 4 percent saying they sometimes do, according to Ira Sheskin, director of the …
Remember compassion this holiday season
… have fond memories of kindhearted people who saw that they had something under their Christmas trees. Even if the gifts were a used pair of tap dancing shoes, or a doll with a broken foot, …
Natural disasters in 2011 prompt outpouring of charity
… than 40 people in various states were reported to have been killed by floodwaters, falling trees, car accidents and powerful waves. Parts of New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, …
Do men hate going to church?
… men with chainsaws who went to Joplin, Mo., after the horrible tornado there in May. Lots of trees had been felled by the wind. But within two days, these men had all the timber cleared so …
Advent readings inspire Occupy LA arrest
… this coalition of the unwashed, the raffish, the punks, the anarchists, the dope smokers, the tree sitters, the dumpster divers, and the aggressive cyclists might actually constitute the …
Morning Briefing
… Providence, RI -- … Gov. Chafee, Bishop Tobin disagree over what to call a decorated evergreen tree … Denver, Colo. -- … Campaign seeks lapsed Catholics' return to fold … Fort Wayne-South …
Let the trees of the forest exult
… Mary Ann McGivern … "Let the trees of the forest exult before the Lord, for he comes." (Ps 96:12) I love this Advent antiphon. … confidence that God is with us. I can hear God's footsteps coming through the brush. A mimosa tree behind my office has gone to seed. All summer, its prodigious pink flowers drew … Chairman Mao Zedong said, "To plant a tree is to believe in the future." I've planted a lot of trees, mostly fruit trees -- apples, plums, cherries and my favorite, apricot. Fruit trees count …
At Chicago parish, some annoyed, others OK with new missal
… of St. Gertrude, was more interested in getting an ornament from the parish "giving tree." She remembers the change to the vernacular back in her native Scotland. "It'll just take a …