So Long, Santa
James Schall, S.J., writing at The Catholic Thing:
A Christian cannot but be amused by the earnestness with which signs of his religion are zealously hounded from the public square. In the park at the end of Key Bridge over the Potomac, the huge city Christmas tree has lights, but no crèche. The Tannenbaum was a pagan thing, though as Chesterton said, the only place the great pagan things are preserved is in the Church. “O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree, how lovely are thy branches.”