Evangelizing At Christmastime
By JOANNE SADLER BUTLER A happy accident of the commercial Christmas (ahem, “Holiday”) season is it pushes the detritus of Halloween decorations off the big-box retailers’ shelves. This pleases me, and should please you as it closes the door to what is now America’s annual celebration of a culture of death while opening the door to our celebration of life, represented by Christ Incarnate of the Virgin Mary. Unless you live in a suburb populated with lots of kids, you may have missed the morphing of Halloween from a simpler time when children dressed up in cast-off clothes and went door-to-door seeking candy — to one where homeowners try to outdo each other in ghoulish decorations, where the winner is…Continue Reading