Pope Francis called State
broadcaster RAI's Uno Mattina show live on Thursday to wish
viewers a "Christian Christmas, like the first one" in a move
that clearly surprised and moved the presenters. The pontiff said that, with the first Christmas, "God overturned the order of the world in the search for smallness, making Himself small (among men)".
He also said a real Christmas was different from the Christmas of the "money god".