TV legend Bob Newhart will appear on Wednesday evening, Dec. 23, during our special online Christmas show “A Paulist Family Christmas Card.”

The show also will feature Christmas songs, reflections and greetings from our parishes and centers.

It will be broadcast at 8:30 p.m. Eastern / 7:30 p.m. Central / 5:30 p.m. Pacific on our Facebook page, YouTube channel, and at paulist.org/christmas. (You may tune in 15 minutes early for pre-show music.)

Newhart is a longtime friend of the Paulists. Here he is in “Packy,” a famous episode of Paulist Productions’ Emmy Award-winning television series “Insight.”

Newhart stars as God, and Jack Klugman as an agent in the afterlife: