Advent Distortions: When Liturgical Symbolism Replaces Repentance
Denver, Colorado, Nov 29, 2025 / 12:36 pm
The Catholic News Agency portal promotes Advent practices emphasizing emotional sentimentality over doctrinal substance, framing the season as a mere countdown to Christmas while obscuring its penitential essence. The article states:
“To help remedy this surprise, the Church provides songs, signs, and symbols to enter into the season of Advent more fruitfully.”
This reduces the season to aesthetic rituals, ignoring Quas Primas (Pius XI, 1925) which mandates Christocentric governance over all temporal affairs, including liturgical preparation.









