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Fr. Robert P. Imbelli
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Francis X. Maier
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Richard A. Spinello
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Carrie Gress
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Fr. Paul D. Scalia
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RECENT COLUMNS
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Fr. Robert P. Imbelli
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Francis X. Maier
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Richard A. Spinello
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Carrie Gress
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Fr. Paul D. Scalia
NEWS
COMMENTARY
On the “Winter Feast”
Dale Ahlquist, Catholic World Report
Tuesday, December 21, 2021
Have you ever heard the smug criticism that Christmas is really a Pagan festival? When critics go after the origins of Christmas, they also attack the modern rendering of it as too secular, as if this is somehow the fault of Christians. As G.K. Chesterton says, the modern world has “first vulgarized Christmas and then denounced it as vulgar.”