Originally published at The Catholic Thing
The annual challenge for clerics is to present a story listeners think they know everything about – the Son of God being born in a manger to a Virgin far from home – and offer something new, memorable and helpful. Nine clerics, including Archbishops Salvatore Cordileone and Thomas Wenski, Bishop Frank Caggiano, and Fr. Dwight Longenecker. “It is good,” Cordileone says, “that we put much effort, artistry and love into decorating our Nativity scenes, but the beauty of the art should inspire us to contemplate the historical moment in its full reality and not distract us from it.”
