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… subject it to more catholic tests." The mountain — the colors of winter dusk through the bare trees, the surrounding carpet of rocks, the way it cradled the dead in its arms, the pool of …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… … 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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. …

… 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 …