Comments for So Long, Santa at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 12 out of 12 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Sat, 25 May 2013 15:48:01 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/so-long-santa.html#comment-370 Fr. Schall I think you did everything right except one thing. You didn't hit the nail on the head on why this has occured. In my opinion the ACLU (American Civil Libeties Union) has created this fear of expressing ourselves. They protest governments from putting up Christmas Trees, and manger scenes. I think the purpose of the ACLU has come and is gone. They assisted with a lot of needed changes, however they threw the baby out with the bath water. We need to place blame where it's due. - TJ Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:41:52 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/so-long-santa.html#comment-366 This could not have been better put. The whole of creation could not ,would not and does not accept God among us in human form."flesh of our flesh" for the flesh is so corrupt. We need to devise some other construct. Yet there would stil be those who would doubt ,disbelieve, deride and destrroy such an idea. But God knew this from the beginning. ref. the fall of Lucifer and Adam. The power to make right that which has gone wrong with man rests first and foremost with his maker who sent his only - andre Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:42:00 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/so-long-santa.html#comment-356 Thank you. Yes, I believe you are correct. This downplaying of Christmas is indeed spiritual, and there is something sinister here. I read your article with increasing interest. I can only say thank you for publishing it. - Annie Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:00:27 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/so-long-santa.html#comment-352 "Christmas is the Feast of the Incarnation of the Son of God amongst us" An excellent column Father, but is it not confusing and misleading to say that Christmas is the Feast of the Incarnation? True, Christmas is the Nativity of Jesus, when He first appeared to "the world," but His actual Incarnation, His actual physically becoming man, happened nine months earlier, at the Annunciation. Especially in these pro-abortion times, should we not be clear about that? Otherwise, excellent words - Bender Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:05:44 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/so-long-santa.html#comment-354 If Sundays were focused on the worship of God as was the case a few generations ago, then there would be no problem of Christmas being observed as a religious holy day. No Sunday--no Christmas! - Ray the frog Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:17:35 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/so-long-santa.html#comment-353 Thanks, Father Schall! - Jim Stagg Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:35:21 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/so-long-santa.html#comment-351 Fr. Schall, you keep preaching like this & more of your students will come to know deeply & belive fully that The Word became Flesh & dwelt in time among us...and dwells within the Holy Eucharist now to enter into our dwellings here and now. He will be believed, adored, loved and trusted & no amount of "Bah-humbug" will crush His True Presence. But keep teaching, preaching, writing, talking- until your voice is gone & the words are only left on the page. We need you. We need your priesthood. - Debby Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:59:02 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/so-long-santa.html#comment-349 Thank you, Fr. Schall. Today we want many things, but we don't want even to think there is something or someone "beyond" and "within" whose Presence sees us as we are. So, we seek to silence that Presence and distract ourselves from what's real and genuinely powerful. - Acroamatic Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:57:54 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/so-long-santa.html#comment-348 Christmas is also a celebration of the birth of all children, of the mystery of birth. We are in an age when children are routinely slain to appease the feminist cult. Even feminists know it's wrong, and Christmas is a rebuke they cannot face. - Raymond Barry Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:57:06 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/so-long-santa.html#comment-347 The hatred of Christmas ard the demand to de-Christinianize the West are parts of the program to aboish faith in God, which is the only thing standing between mankind and an all-powerful state. Yes, Virginia & the rest of the USA, there really is a Communism. Perhpas the typcial "happy holidays" barking village atheist who thinks hs is strking a blow for liberation from Christian tyrrany has not even read Marx, but it is nonetheless Communism's bidding he is doing. Remeber Bella Dodd! - Thomas C.Coleman, Jr. Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:56:38 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/so-long-santa.html#comment-346 Beautiful article, Fr. Schall. - Santiago Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:36:22 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/so-long-santa.html#comment-345 Fr. Schall, you are exactly right. The world doesn't hate God, where God is taken to mean some impersonal First Mover. That kind of God--the God of Buddhism, for example--is perfectly acceptable company at the table of sinners. What the world hates is Christ; the incarnate Christ, Who bears vocal, material witness to its abject sinfulness and love of evil; the Christ Who points a fleshy, judgmental finger unerringly in its direction. That's the voice the world seeks to silence. - James the Least Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:21:58 +0100