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OP-ED: The other Christmas Story – When power fears children

"By the time the Christmas lights are taken down, the Church quietly observes a feast much of the modern world has forgotten: the Feast of the Holy Innocents (December 28)."

Dec 23, 2025
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Author: Richard Dur

By the time the Christmas lights are taken down, the Church quietly observes a feast much of the modern world has forgotten: the Feast of the Holy Innocents (December 28). It commemorates the first state-sponsored massacre of children.

King Herod, alerted to the birth of a rival he could not control, ordered the killing…

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