Many of the old Christmas traditions we celebrate today were developed to synthesize Christian doctrine with the pagan ...

The original Santa Claus was St. Nicholas ... the Protestants said that Christmas celebrations, which included pagan traditions of exchanging gifts and raucous merrymaking, exhibited “an ...

As a family born and raised Catholic, we've seen our beliefs evolve over the years. My parents continued their journey in the ...

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Santa Claus exemplifies endangered masculine virtues that are too ... At his core, it is a fundamental Christian message ...

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If you've already hung up your stockings and are eager for Santa Claus to come to town ... the date was chosen in "an effort to adopt and absorb the traditions" of the pagan festival Saturnalia, which ...