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JESUS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING

Santa is the top banana now. I noticed on the Michael Buble Christmas show that there wasn’t a single carol, not even Silent Night. The tune I hear most often on television and Muzak is “Have yourself a merry little Christmas”, a wonderfully poignant wartime song, but not pious. Of course Christmas now starts five minutes after Thanksgiving and the cash registers do all the ringing. The old narratives have lost their power in our brave new world. Italy is in a fix but they aren’t turning to the Vatican for help, it’s the IMF. Decades ago Woody Allen said (not cruelly but irreverently): “There’s a real traffic jam in Manhattan today, is the Pope or some other show business personality in town?”
Today’s sports page has a droll item. The wife of baseball’s $254mllion man, Albert Pujols. said that she was indignant that the Cardinals only offered him $150 million. At first she said she was angry at God and the Cardinals but in the end “it’s just like God to put us on a team called the Angels”. Dear Mrs.Pujols, every theologian knows that God always favors the American League, especially the NY Yankees. So now we have a season dedicated to “The Miracle on 34th Street”, certainly not the one in Bethlehem.