"What do you want to do with me, but I am sure that we need to forget about such nonsense as an old new year, and celebrate Christ's Christmas Day on the modern Gregorian calendar - December 25th.
First, it is logical. We celebrate the event that gave the beginning of the summer, it means that it is primary in relation to the summer. From the birth of Christ, the whole world began counting days and nights, respectively, the event was to take place earlier than the reaction to it.
Secondly, the new year on January 1st must give starts and accomplishments, and not two-week idlers and the waiting for a booze. The numbers from the third country would well roll the sleeves and start working, and then all the end of December and so worked neither Shalko nor Valko.
Thirdly, there can be no two Christmas and can not be two new years! The very existence of two dates devalues that and the other.
Of course, you will have to negotiate with Catholics. Under the transfer of dates, you can get the movement towards any fundamental issues.
When we fifteen years ago came to the Jerusalem Temple of the Holy Sepulcher, three wells were struck by three wells, in each of which was supposedly two thousand years ago, a cross with a crucified savior. Three confessions (Orthodox, Catholic and Armenian) could not solve what calculations are more accurate in the definition of a holy place, because the scholars of men of these three denominations poked into different points of the floor, supporting their statements allegedly accurate mathematics. In the last trilts, I have no longer observed these inconsistencies - one common hole in a new place.
So, it is still possible to negotiate. So why not for other issues? "