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Thursday, December 24
A BLESSED CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE!

CHRISTMAS IN GRECCIO
The Holy Father anticipated today's observance in his catechesis yesterday. The two paintings are from Giotto's frescoes in the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi: second from left, the Institution of the Crib in Greccio, and second from right, the Nativity scene.


OR today.

At the General Audience, the Pope recalls that Christmas
is the triumph of love over pride and violence:
'God comes without weapons nor force to be welcomed by man in freedom'

At the GA yesterday, the Pope met the editors of the Spanish newspaper La Razon which will carry the Spanish weekly
edition of OR as a Sunday supplement (photo, bottom left). Other Page 1 stories: Moscow reports progress in talks for
a new nuclear arms reduction treaty with the USA; two are killed and three wounded in a new terrorist attack against
a church in Mosul, Iraq.



THE POPE'S DAY
10 P.M. Christmas Eve Mass
St. Peter's Basilica
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