Vatican News portal reports on an event where antipope Leo XIV addressed approximately 1,000 participants in a “Living Nativity” procession to St. Mary Major Basilica (December 13, 2025). The article describes the event as spreading hope through reenacting Christ’s birth, quoting the antipope’s call to be “pilgrims of hope” who carry a “gift of light for our world”. This spectacle exemplifies the conciliar sect’s systematic replacement of supernatural faith with naturalistic sentimentality.
Naturalistic Reduction of the Incarnation
The portrayal of the Nativity as merely a “joyful sign” and “gift of light” constitutes a heretical minimization of the Mysterium Incarnationis. Pius XI’s Quas Primas definitively taught that Christ’s birth inaugurated “His empire shall be multiplied, and there shall be no end to peace: he shall sit upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it and gird it with justice and righteousness from henceforth and forever” (Isaiah 9:7). The complete absence in the antipope’s message of Christ’s social kingship – the very essence of Christmas – proves this ceremony constitutes blasphemous theater.
When the article states participants will “spread the message that we are never alone“, it reduces the God-Man’s advent to therapeutic self-help. Compare this to the authentic Catholic teaching: “The whole of human society as well must be reformed in Christ and transformed into the family of God” (Pius XI, Ubi Arcano). The conciliar sect replaces adoration of the Divine Infant with celebration of human solidarity.
Liturgical Abomination Disguised as Piety
The designation of St. Mary Major as “Bethlehem of the West” constitutes geographical gnosticism condemned by Pius XII: “The local separation of particular churches does not destroy the unity of the Catholic Church…the Church of Christ is one and the same for all nations” (Mystici Corporis 14). This false sacralization of place accompanies the desacralization of doctrine.
The article’s reference to “Holy Mass” celebrated by conciliar clergy constitutes sacrilege, given their invalid ordinations following Paul VI’s apostate rite. As Pius XII decreed in Sacramentum Ordinis, the priesthood requires specific sacramental form – which the neo-church has destroyed. Participants unknowingly assist at a “table of assembly” rather than the true Sacrifice.
Omission as Dogmatic Rebellion
Nowhere does the antipope mention:
- The necessity of submission to Christ the King by individuals and states
- The Virgin Mary’s Immaculate Conception and divine maternity
- Christ’s redemption through the Cross
- The eschatological judgment facing all who reject His reign
These silences scream apostasy. As the Syllabus of Errors condemned: “The Roman pontiffs have, by their too arbitrary conduct, contributed to the division of the Church” (Proposition 38). The antipope’s feel-good message embodies the “modernist aspiration for a generic religiosity without dogma” (St. Pius X, Pascendi 39).
Pseudo-Historical Revisionism
The article’s claim that St. Francis “began the Nativity scene tradition” distorts history to serve ecumenism. The Church had always venerated Christ’s birth through the Divine Office and Mass – St. Francis merely created a devotional supplement, not replacement, for liturgical worship. This anachronistic portrayal fuels the neo-church’s false narrative of “perpetual evolution” condemned in Lamentabili (Proposition 54).
The “Living Nativity” participants become unwitting actors in the conciliar sect’s passion play – a synthetic religion where emotion replaces dogma, and man’s search for meaning displaces God’s right to rule. As Pius XI warned: “When God and Jesus Christ are removed from laws and states, the foundations of authority are destroyed” (Quas Primas). This spectacle isn’t mere error – it’s anti-liturgy preparing souls to worship the Antichrist.
Source:
Pope: The Nativity is a gift of light for our world in need of hope (vaticannews.va)
Date: 13.12.2025