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Wealth of tribute comes for Benedict, who desired simplicity
… email from the Vatican press office, hundreds of tourists were admiring a towering Christmas tree in the square, many unaware that Benedict had died in his secluded residence in the Vatican …
Where is the newborn king of the Jews?
… we. We shouldn't let the spirit of this season get tossed to the curb with the Christmas tree. These weeks, we have celebrated Christ coming into our world and into our lives. The …
This Venetian Renaissance painter rarely met a detail he didn't like
… or paintings may include smaller merchant gondolas." Carpaccio also depicted mosques, palm trees and people wearing Jewish and Muslim clothing to suggest the Holy Land, she added. He had …
How Christmas is like post-COVID, in-person gatherings
… … I know that most radio stations have already stopped playing Christmas music, that Christmas trees — real and artificial — have been taken down in many households, and that CVS and Walgreens …
Christmas in a small Italian town
… refer to the day as L'Immacolata . Most families wait until then to decorate their Christmas tree. We were invited for the day to the home of our friends Giovanna and Pierino. Giovanna … aesthetic sense that doesn't equate excess with elegance. That said, the municipal Christmas tree in Guardiagrele's town square would rival any public holiday tree in the U.S. It stands about 40 feet tall, decorated with multicolored woolen designs …
'Spirited' reminds us we're never unredeemable
… the population. His latest project, we learn early on, is revitalizing the failing Christmas tree industry. “You've got the better product," he assures a room full of Christmas tree sellers (in song). "What you're really selling is the way things ought to be. … It's a symbol of your values." Those who buy fake trees, he insists, must be framed as anti-Christmas, anti-family, anti-tradition — the list goes …
What to expect from Pope Francis this Christmas
… in his approach to marking the "happiest season of all." Even the Vatican's Christmas tree this year is a testament to this reality. Pope John Paul II began the tradition of putting … Square in 1982, bringing some of the customs of his native Poland to Rome with him. The trees that have since historically graced the busy piazza have been centuries old silver fir trees cut down for the occasion. But no more. Ahead of chopping down one for this season, local …
An NYC art exhibit shows the beauty and blight of Earth's climate today
… deforestation in and around the Amazon rainforest is releasing the carbon stored in those trees' roots into the air, transforming what was a carbon sink area into a massive carbon source. …
The Catholic case to support NY's human composting bill
… of visiting and placing store-bought flowers by a marble headstone, loved ones could watch a tree fed by the decedent's remains grow from a sapling to a mighty oak within the blessed ground …
'Ukraine Crucifixion': At Christmas, war-torn Ukraine confident in its resurrection
… underway at the Vatican. "I wonder if we in Zaporizhzhia will also be able to have a tree in the square?" he recalled thinking. He concluded that was unlikely, but said it doesn't …
Documentary's personal stories highlight urgent message of Laudato Si'
… protection of the Brazilian Amazon, Borarí says men pointed guns at his head and tied him to a tree. He dates his concern for deforestation to 2002 when "the peace and quiet ended when logging …