Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York (United States), encouraged the faithful not to let gifts prevent them from seeing the best of Christmas: the birth of the Baby Jesus.
In a video published on December 23 on his ”.
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“And my little sister, Lisa, who was four or five at the time, said, ‘Oh no, all the presents are filling the nativity! We can’t see the main image, with Mary, Joseph and the Baby Jesus! “We should move some gifts so we can see her,” he continued.
“I think Lisa was right. All the gifts, all the joy, all the family, all the visits, all the activities, all that is good, but do not allow it to hide the best of all: the birth of Jesus,” he concluded.
I can remember once when I was a boy we were setting up the Christmas tree and my little sister said, “Oh no! All the presents are crowding the manger. We’d better remove some of the gifts so we can see the crib!” I think she had it right. @thegnewsroom pic.twitter.com/l3d1kGk1M3
— Cardinal Dolan (@CardinalDolan) December 23, 2024
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Walter Sánchez Silva
I have been a husband since 2008. My wife and I have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before he was born. Since I joined ACI Prensa in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Cologne, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and of Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the Family synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Synodality, in 2023. I closely follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers persecution from the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as current ecclesiastical events in the region.