Among some clippings, I came across the following letter from Brian Tubbs in The Washington Times . Already, Santa Claus, Rudolph, and the Christmas tree had become the cultural icons for Dec. 25. Now there is a powerful movement to remove even some of those nonreligious icons to avoid conjuring up in anyone's mind even the faintest clue as to the traditional understanding of Dec. 25.
Christians are in a multicultural dilemma.
I pulled down my copy of St. Thomas's Summa Theologiae . In the Third Part, Questions 35 and 36, St. Thomas discusses the Nativity of the Lord. St. Thomas's approach to the Nativity of the Lord might at first confuse us. He assures us that what is properly born is a person, not a nature, though Christ is born with a human nature. Aquinas was protecting the fact that a real subject, with a divine and a human nature, was born.