Father Matt Malone’s homily for the Feast of St. Edmund Campion, patron of America Media.

In the wake of my reading The Dark Is Rising, one of my New Year’s resolutions is to try to keep pace with time, not lag behind it as I usually do.

As this winter gets underway in earnest, I say, go ahead and break me. Plunder me, take me down, so I can be made new. Maybe that is exactly what I need—not merely a rest but a reinvention.

We might think the battle for Christmas is over words. But the struggle is waged at a far deeper level of our lives.