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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Exchanging Christmas gifts and organizing holiday parties are all well and good, but Christians should contemplate the scene of Jesus' birth to recover what is truly important during the Christmas season, Pope Francis said. At his weekly general audience Dec. 20, just five days before Christmas, the pope told people that "the risk of losing what matters in life is great, and paradoxically increases at Christmas."

When I was a child, my parents and I would attend Christmas Eve Mass at St. John’s Catholic Church in Whitehall, Wisconsin. When we got home, my father and I

The way that Christmas is traditionally portrayed owes a lot to St Francis of Assisi.

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At his General Audience, Pope Francis reflects on the first Nativity scene, created 800 years ago by St Francis

This year in Bethlehem, we are waiting for a hope that I am not sure I would even be able to believe in anymore, except that it does not entirely depend on us.

On the 800th anniversary of the “Nativity scene of Greccio,” the Apostolic Penitentiary is granting a plenary indulgence to all the faithful who, between no ...

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As Christmas approaches, the pontiff dedicated today’s general audience to the 800th anniversary of the first nativity scene by Saint Francis in Greccio. For him, this representation is a “school of sobriety” against the “consumerism that corrodes the meaning of celebration and joy.

For people caught up in the holiday rush, "there is no interior space for wonder" before the mystery of Jesus' birth, but "only to organize parties," he said.