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Christmas trees are a sign of God’s light which continues to shine despite attempts to distinguish it, said Benedict XVI Friday, receiving a delegation from the Italian Molise region that donated this years’ Christmas tree in St. Peter’s Square. When you try to erase the name of God from the pages of history, the result is that you draw crooked lines, where even the most beautiful and noble words lose their true meaning. Think of words like «freedom», «common good», «justice» deprived of rootedness in God and in his love, in the God who has shown us his face in Jesus Christ, these realities are often at the mercy of human interests, losing their bond with the demands of truth and civic responsibility.