NCR Connections: To try and step our family's Season of Creation game, I've come up with three ways for our family — and possibly yours — to connect with God's creation during this month-plus celebration.
Soul Seeing: No one spoke of the Baby Jesus who would come on the night of the Nativity to bring gifts for the children. His place had been taken by an old man, dressed in red, carrying a sack of gifts parents had bought.
Distinctly Catholic: It requires spiritual discipline to avoid the consumerism that has truly taken the Christ out of Christmas and replaced him with Mammon. In wrapping paper.
The Peace Pulpit: We in the church today are suffering, as everyone knows, a severe crisis. Part of the problem is the wealth of the church and the wealth of religious leaders.
We should concede Dec. 25 to Walmart, Amazon and Macy's. They can proceed with their sales and promotions and we can quietly celebrate the birth of Jesus at another time.
Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: Mockery in the Cakeshop case; #MeToo also means workers in restaurants and hotels; Poland to phase out Sunday shopping.
NCR Today: The "Playboy philosophy" was sold by a man resembling a bank manager living out the fantasies of possessiveness. Of luxury cars, penthouses, celebrities and, of course, women.
