No good cancelling Xmas - Galantino

(ANSA) - Vatican City, November 30 - Monsignor Nunzio Galantino, the secretary general of Italian bishops conference CEI, blasted alleged attempts to cancel or hide Christmas in an editorial published Monday in Catholic monthly Vita Pastorale.
    "If this is Christmas, I find the decisions of those who would like to cancel or camouflage Christmas to respect other traditions or religious confessions, making fools of themselves in the process, to be specious and ideological," Galantino wrote.
    The comments come amid a furore over a decision last week by a school in Rozzano, near Milan, to scrap its traditional Christmas concert and remove a crucifix in order to stage a more 'secular' event. Galantino added that this Christmas will be even more special than usual as it will takes place during the Catholic Church's extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy.