[Maximilian]

This article tells the story with both words and pictures. After reading this analysis, the "New Springtime" reminds one an awful lot of the weather in Narnia: "Where it's always winter, but never Christmas." But perhaps the final graph of the seminarians at Our Lady of Guadalupe is kind of like the arrival of Father Christmas in Narnia -- signaling the beginning of a thaw.

[BlackElk]

"always winter...never Christmas" certainly was as we have experienced it. Fr. Christmas has arrived. He is a man named Justin Cardinal Rigali and the new crop of actually Catholic bishops and archbishops are the intial gifts under our tree, along with Bishop Bruskewitz, FSSP and the Institute of Christ the King. As JP II says, quoting St. Paul: Be not afraid.