Bethlehem’s Empty Festivities: A Conciliar Betrayal of Christ the King
VaticanNews portal (December 24, 2025) reports on Bethlehem’s Christmas celebrations resuming after a two-year pause, featuring “Cardinal” Pierbattista Pizzaballa’s procession from Jerusalem and Mayor Maher Nicola Canawati’s statements about interfaith unity and economic revival. The article emphasizes solidarity with Gaza Palestinians and hopes for tourism recovery, while omitting all supernatural dimensions of the Nativity.
Naturalistic Reduction of the Incarnation
The report reduces Christmas to a socio-political event, speaking of “solidarity with the city’s fellow Palestinians in Gaza” and economic concerns while omitting the doctrinal reality of the Word Made Flesh. This echoes Modernism’s destruction of dogma condemned in Lamentabili Sane (1907): “The dogmas of faith are to be held only according to their practical sense” (Proposition 26). Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) explicitly warned against such naturalism: “When once men recognize… that Christ has been given by God to men… as Redeemer… then at last will many evils be cured.”
Interfaith Apostasy Masquerading as Unity
Mayor Canawati’s declaration that “It feels like a feast for all Palestinians, not only for Christians… We are one people—Christians, Muslims, and Samaritans” constitutes blatant religious indifferentism condemned by Pius IX in Syllabus of Errors: “Good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ” (Proposition 17). The First Vatican Council (1870) dogmatically affirmed: “Whosoever wills to be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic faith.”
Conciliar “Cardinal” as Agent of Apostasy
Pizzaballa’s participation in this charade follows the conciliar sect’s pattern of subordinating worship to political agendas. His claim to bring greetings from Gaza’s Christians “animated by a strong desire to rebuild” ignores the true Catholic imperative: “Primum querite regnum Dei” (“Seek first the kingdom of God”, Matthew 6:33). The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 1258) strictly forbade Catholic participation in non-Catholic rites, yet here a “cardinal” lends legitimacy to interfaith syncretism.
Economic Idolatry Replaces Redemptive Purpose
The article’s focus on tourism (“85 per cent of local families depend directly or indirectly on tourism”) exposes the neo-church’s materialist worldview. Contrast this with Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum (1891): “The true worth and nobility of man lie in his moral qualities, that is, in virtue.” Nowhere does the report mention Bethlehem’s duty to proclaim Christ’s kingship, instead reducing the city to a commodity – precisely the “practical function” of dogma condemned by St. Pius X as Modernist heresy.
Omission of Eucharistic Adoration and Sacramental Warnings
Silence about the Real Presence and the Sacrum Commertium (Holy Exchange) of the Nativity proves the conciliar sect’s abandonment of Catholic eschatology. More gravely, there is no warning that receiving “Communion” in post-conciliar structures – where the Mass has been invalidated through Novus Ordo innovations – constitutes sacrilege. Pius XII’s Mediator Dei (1947) anathematized such liturgical abuses: “To the irreverent and the careless… let them remember that God is to be feared.”
Conclusion: Bethlehem’s Captivity to the New World Order
This spectacle exemplifies how the conciliar sect has become what Pius X called “a society for philanthropy and mutual benevolence” (Notre Charge Apostolique, 1910). By replacing Adorate Dominum with interfaith dialogue and economic recovery plans, the Vatican II sect fulfills the Masonic dream exposed in Pius IX’s Syllabus: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Proposition 55). Until Bethlehem’s stones cry out anew Christus Vincit, Christus Regnat, Christus Imperat, such celebrations remain empty rituals – counterfeit coins in the treasury of Divine Wrath.
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Bethlehem celebrates 1st Christmas in two years (vaticannews.va)
Date: 24.12.2025