Vatican News portal reports that antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) plans to celebrate Christmas liturgies in St. Peter’s Basilica, including a December 25 Mass not observed since John Paul II’s pontificate. The article describes a Nativity scene featuring “28,000 white ribbons bearing the names or pseudonyms of children saved from abortion” and announces the closure of the Jubilee Year on January 6, marking only the second time in history when a different antipope closes than opened the Holy Year. This theatrical display of traditionalism serves as window-dressing for the conciliar sect’s fundamental apostasy.
Liturgical Innovations Disguised as Tradition
The article boasts that antipope Leo XIV “will celebrate his first Christmas at the Vatican by reviving the tradition of offering Christmas Mass on Dec. 25 in St. Peter’s Basilica, something no pope has done since 1994.” This claim constitutes historical revisionism, given that the immemorial Catholic practice (consuetudo immemorabilis) requires the Sovereign Pontiff to celebrate three Christmas Masses – including the Midnight Mass in nocte as mandated by the Bull Quo primum of St. Pius V (1570). Benedict XVI’s 2009 decision to move the vigil to 7 PM violated Rubricarum Instructum (1960), which itself had already compromised the traditional liturgy.
When the article notes that “before 2009, it took place at midnight, until Benedict XVI decided to move it to an earlier time,” it unwittingly exposes the conciliar sect’s constant liturgical instability. The 1962 Missal – which these antipopes falsely present as “traditional” – itself constitutes an illegitimate rupture from the Church’s lex orandi, as Pope Pius XII warned in Mediator Dei (1947): “The liturgy is something more than ceremonies, and formulas for use in worship; it cannot be left to the pleasure of private individuals.”
Theological Subversion in “Urbi et Orbi” Message
The announced “World Day of Peace” message titled “Peace Be with You All: Towards an Unarmed and Disarming Peace” constitutes blatant heresy against Christ’s Social Kingship. Pius XI definitively taught in Quas primas (1925): “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.” The conciliar sect’s peace message rejects this Christocentric order, instead promoting the modernist error condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55).
The article’s claim that this message “proposes a vision that rejects fear, threats, violence, and weapons” directly contradicts the Church’s consistent teaching on the legitimacy of just war (St. Augustine, City of God XIX) and capital punishment (Pius XII, Address to Catholic Jurists, 1955). This pacifist utopianism stems from the same naturalism condemned in Pius IX’s Quanta cura: “They do not fear to foster that erroneous opinion, most fatal in its effects on the Catholic Church and the salvation of souls, called by Our Predecessor, Gregory XVI, an ‘insanity,’ namely that ‘liberty of conscience and worship is each man’s personal right.'”
Sacrilegious Manipulation of Sacred Signs
The so-called “pro-life Nativity scene” featuring “the Virgin Mary as pregnant” constitutes blasphemous innovation. Catholic tradition always depicts the Blessed Virgin post partum in Nativity scenes, in accordance with her perpetual virginity (ante partum, in partu, et post partum) defined at the Lateran Council (649). The use of ribbons with names of “children saved from abortion” profanes the sacred representation by turning it into political propaganda, violating the Council of Trent’s decree on sacred images (Session 25).
When the article describes “420 yellow ribbons display messages from hospitalized sick children,” it reveals the conciliar sect’s transformation of worship into human-centered therapy. Contrast this with the Church’s true teaching: “The liturgy is directed to the divine worship” (Pius XII, Mediator Dei 27), not psychological manipulation.
Illegitimate Jubilee Closure
The report that “the Holy Doors of the other papal basilicas — St. Mary Major, St. John Lateran, and St. Paul Outside the Walls — will also have been closed” constitutes sacrilege, as these churches remain under occupation by apostate hierarchy. True jubilees require canonical mission and orthodox faith, as Pope Boniface VIII established in Antiquorum habet (1300). The article’s boast that “this will be the second time in history that a jubilee year is closed by a different pope than the one who inaugurated it” inadvertently highlights the conciliar sect’s irregularity, recalling Clement XI’s problematic election during the 1700 jubilee – itself occurring during the Western Schism’s aftermath.
Invalid Sacraments and False Shepherds
The planned baptism of “several children of Vatican employees in the Sistine Chapel” raises grave concerns about sacrament validity. Since Paul VI’s invalid promulgation of the Novus Ordo baptismal rite (1969), all conciliar sect sacraments remain doubtful at best. As Pope Leo XIII established in Apostolicae curae (1896): “When the rite is changed, with the intention of introducing another rite not accepted by the Church and of rejecting what the Church does, and what by the institution of Christ belongs to the nature of the sacrament, then it is clear that not only is the necessary intention lacking, but that the intention is adverse to and destructive of the sacrament.”
The article’s reference to “Sister Raffaella Petrini, president of the Governorate of Vatican City State” epitomizes the conciliar revolution’s destruction of divine hierarchy. St. Paul commanded: “Let women keep silence in the churches” (1 Corinthians 14:34), while Pius XII condemned feminism in Allocution to Italian Women (1945): “The times call for the mother in the woman, in whatever state of life.”
Conclusion: Satan’s Mockery of Divine Worship
These Christmas celebrations constitute what St. Pius X called in Pascendi “the synthesis of all heresies” – a diabolical parody of Catholic worship designed to lead souls to perdition. The article’s silence about the true Mass’s propitiatory sacrifice, the necessity of the Catholic Faith for salvation (Pius IX, Quanto conficiamur moerore), and the Four Last Things reveals the conciliar sect’s naturalistic orientation. As Our Lord warned: “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves” (Matthew 7:15). True Catholics must reject these satanic counterfeits and cling to the unchanging Faith preserved by bishops maintaining apostolic succession outside the conciliar structures.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV revives tradition during first Christmas of his pontificate (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 24.12.2025