The Empty Spectacle of Vatican’s Christmas Concert Exposes Modernist Apostasy
VaticanNews portal (December 13, 2025) reports on the “Vatican Christmas Concert” organized under antipope Leo XIV, describing it as an event where “music accompanies our journeys” and becomes a “dwelling place for the soul.” The article highlights the concert’s proceeds funding a Salesian school project in Congo while quoting the antipope’s claim that God “comes to meet us at the very heart of our small human stories.” This spectacle epitomizes the conciliar sect’s abandonment of supernatural faith in favor of emotionalism and horizontal humanitarianism.
Reduction of Christmas to Sentimental Naturalism
The antipope’s assertion that “God chooses a human setting…[and] comes to meet us at the very heart of our small stories” constitutes a deliberate suppression of the Incarnation’s cosmic significance. Contrast this with Pius XI’s encyclical Quas primas, which declares: “The empire of our Redeemer embraces all men… His regal dignity demands that the State should take account of the commandments of God and of Christian principles” (n. 32). The concert’s focus on music as an “inner space” replaces adoration of the Divine Infant with therapeutic self-absorption – a betrayal of the Adventus Domini that anticipates Christ’s judgment upon nations (Matt. 25:31-46).
Sacred Music Degraded into Emotional Manipulation
By framing music as a “shared intimate diary” preserving human “nostalgia, desire, disorientation,” the conciliar sect reduces sacred art to psychological utility. This contradicts Pius X’s Motu Proprio Tra le sollecitudini (1903), which mandates that liturgical music must “sanctify the faithful… and transmit the truths of faith through dignified forms.” The article’s silence on the Traditional Christmas Mass – with its Gregorian propers like “Puer natus est nobis” – exposes the concert’s true purpose: not worship, but worldly entertainment masquerading as spirituality.
The Fraud of ‘Missionary’ Fundraising
While boasting about funding a school in Congo, the article omits that true missionary work requires conversion of souls to the One True Faith, not secular education. Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors condemns the idea that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (n. 55) – a principle violated by reducing the Faith to social projects. The Salesians, once stalwarts against modernity, now epitomize the neo-modernist heresy by prioritizing buildings over baptisms, echoing Lamentabili’s condemnation of those who “equate the Church’s mission with philanthropic naturalism” (n. 62).
Silence on Christ’s Social Kingship: The Ultimate Apostasy
Not once does the antipope mention Christ the King or the duty of nations to submit to His reign – a catastrophic omission revealing the conciliar sect’s essence. Pius XI’s institution of the Feast of Christ the King explicitly countered the “plague of secularism” (Quas primas, n. 24), demanding public recognition of “the rights of the Divine King and Master” (n. 31). Instead, Leo XIV offers vacuous platitudes about “beauty inspiring responsible choices,” discarding the Regnum Christi for a UN-style humanitarian agenda. This confirms St. Pius X’s warning: “The modernists replace faith with religious sentiment detached from dogma” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, n. 6).
Source:
Pope: At Christmas, let music be a ‘dwelling place for the soul’ (vaticannews.va)
Date: 13.12.2025