Primary Christmas story: Mary vs. the empire December 26, 2006
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By James Carroll | December 25, 2006
“AS FOR MARY, she treasured all these things, and pondered them in her heart.” (Luke 2:19). What things? The shame of her mysterious pregnancy, the terrible requirement to travel far away, the inhospitable place in which to give birth to her baby, the manger as his only cradle, shepherds [...]