Naturalistic Distortion of Saint Joseph in Vatican’s Advent Message
Vatican News (December 21, 2025) reports on the Angelus address by antipope Robert Prevost (“Leo XIV”), focusing on Saint Joseph’s alleged virtues of “piety, charity, and mercy” presented as tools for social harmony rather than supernatural conversion. The article promotes universal peace for children while omitting the necessity of submission to Christ the King. The text concludes with sacrilegious blessing of nativity figurines (“bambinelli”) by the usurper of Peter’s See.
Reduction of Saint Joseph to Social Worker
The article describes Joseph as “keenly sensitive and human” who supposedly chose a “discreet and benevolent path” of mercy prior to the angelic revelation. This contradicts the Church’s perennial teaching that Joseph’s perfect justice (Matthew 1:19) derived from his supernatural faith, not natural sentimentality. The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 188.4) confirms that public defection from faith voids ecclesiastical authority, making Prevost’s interpretation theologically invalid.
The portrayal reduces Joseph’s heroic obedience to mere “abandonment to providence,” ignoring how he “did as the angel of the Lord commanded him” (Matthew 1:24) through specific acts of worship:
- Circumcising the God-Man (Luke 2:21)
- Presenting Him in the Temple (Luke 2:22)
- Fleeing Herod’s persecution (Matthew 2:13)
These actions manifest cultus latriae (worship due to God alone) – a concept condemned to silence in the modernist narrative.
Erasure of the Kingship of Christ
The call for children to “live in peace” deliberately omits Pius XI’s teaching that “the peace of Christ can only be found in the Kingdom of Christ” (Quas Primas, ยง1). By replacing the Social Reign of Christ the King with humanitarian platitudes, the conciliar sect fulfills Pius IX’s condemnation of those who claim “the Church is an enemy of social progress” (Syllabus of Errors, ยง57).
This naturalism directly violates three dimensions of Christ’s authority emphasized in Quas Primas (ยงยง7-16):
- Legislative: “He is the Lawgiver, to whom men owe obedience”
- Judicial: “The Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son” (John 5:22)
- Executive: “All must obey His commands” under penalty of eternal sanctions
Pseudo-Liturgical Superstition
The blessing of “bambinelli” figurines continues the conciliar sect’s pattern of sacramentals abuse condemned in Lamentabili Sane (ยง41): “The sacraments arose as a result of the interpretation by the Apostles or their successors of Christ’s thoughts and intentions.” True sacramentals like the Benedictio Imaginis Infantis Jesu require:
- Proper ecclesial authority (absent in invalidly “ordained” conciliar ministers)
- Explicit prayers for conversion of pagans and heretics (omitted in modernist rites)
- Recognition of the Christ Child’s divine sovereignty (replaced by “hospitality” rhetoric)
Systematic Apostasy
The article’s silence on extra Ecclesiam nulla salus confirms the conciliar sect’s adherence to Vatican II’s heresy of religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae ยง2). When Prevost prays that “all the children of the world may live in peace,” he denies Christ’s warning: “Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword” (Matthew 10:34). This fulfills Pius X’s condemnation of modernists who “pervert the eternal concept of truth” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis ยง39).
The substitution of filial abandonment to divine providence with “trust in humanity” constitutes apostasy, violating the Oath Against Modernism: “I hold with certainty and sincerely confess that faith is not a blind sentiment of religion welling up from the depths of the subconscious… but a genuine assent of the intellect to truth.”
Source:
Pope Leo XIV: May all children of the world live in peace! (vaticannews.va)
Date: 21.12.2025