Pagan Symbolism Masquerades as Christmas Piety in Vatican Square
The Catholic News Agency portal reports on November 27, 2025, that workers erected an 88-foot spruce tree in St. Peter’s Square, gifted by Italian municipalities Lagundo and Ultimo. “Bishop” Ivo Muser of Bolzano-Bressanone called the tree an “ambassador” of local culture and faith, while a nativity scene donated by the Diocese of Nocera Inferiore-Sarno will honor St. Alphonsus Liguori. The display’s unveiling ceremony is scheduled for December 7.
Naturalistic Substitution of Supernatural Reality
The spectacle of a pagan evergreen tree towering beside the Egyptian obelisk – itself a monument to solar worship – epitomizes the conciliar sect’s abandonment of lex orandi, lex credendi (the law of prayer is the law of belief). Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925) established Christ’s social kingship as the remedy for societies that “removed Jesus Christ and His most holy law from public life.” Yet here, the Vatican occupiers replace the Cross – the only legitimate symbol of Christian triumph – with a Nordic fertility symbol, thereby enacting the very secularization the encyclical condemned.
The statement that the tree reaffirms a “spiritual and emotional bond” with the antipope exposes the sentimental subjectivism governing the counterfeit church. True Catholic unity derives solely from submission to the extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (no salvation outside the Church) principle, not emotional displays orchestrated by apostate clerics. Bishop Muser’s claim that the tree shares “the joy of Christmas” ignores the Nativity’s essence: God becoming flesh to redeem fallen humanity through the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary, not arboreal pageantry.
Syncretism Sacramentalized Through Cultural Ambassadorship
Muser’s description of the tree as an “ambassador of our territory, our culture, and our faith” constitutes religious relativism condemned by Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864): “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself […] with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 1258) strictly forbade Catholics from participating in non-Catholic worship or adopting its symbols. By contrast, this ritual elevates Alpine folklore to parity with divine revelation, reducing faith to ethnic theater.
The planned nativity scene’s emphasis on “local Agro nocerino-sarnese area” traditions continues this anthropocentric corruption. While St. Alphonsus Liguori rightly composed theological hymns, the conciliar sect exploits his memory to baptize Neapolitan folk customs. St. Pius X’s Lamentabili sane (1907) condemned such modernist reductions: “The revelation which is the object of Catholic faith did not cease with the Apostles” (Proposition 21). True Catholic art directs souls toward supernatural mysteries, not regional identity politics.
Sacrilegious Sacraments in a Desecrated Square
The ceremony’s scheduling on December 7 – the feast of St. Ambrose, doctor of the Church – compounds the sacrilege. Ambrose fought Arian heretics who denied Christ’s divinity, while today’s Vatican occupiers deny His kingship by permitting a pagan obelisk to dominate His supposed vicar’s square. The obelisk, originally erected for Pharaoh Seti I, was moved to the square in 1586 as a trophy of the Cross’s victory over paganism. Its current juxtaposition with the Christmas tree inverts that victory, signaling the counterfeit church’s surrender to naturalism.
Significantly absent is any mention of adoration of the Christ Child or preparation for His Second Coming as Judge. The conciliar sect’s “Christmas” celebrates creation rather than the Creator, fulfilling Pius X’s warning in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907): “The Modernists […] make conscience and science supreme arbiters […] That which was proclaimed by the Virgin of the Magnificat […] is less to their credit than the discovery of some new relic.”
Theological Bankruptcy of a Faithless Sect
This ritualized tree-worship exposes the conciliar sect’s complete rupture from Catholic Tradition. The Catechism of St. Pius X teaches that Christmas commemorates “the Word made flesh to offer Himself as a victim for our sins.” Yet the article never mentions sin, redemption, or the need for penance – only the aesthetic spectacle of “elements typical of our local area.”
When “Bishop” Giuseppe Giudice claims the nativity involved a “long period of preparation,” he unwittingly confesses the sect’s barrenness. True Catholics need no theatrical “preparation” to contemplate the Incarnation: daily Rosaries, Eucharistic adoration, and the Immemorial Mass suffice. The 88-foot tree symbolizes the gnostic pride of those who “exchange the truth of God for a lie, worshiping created things rather than the Creator” (Romans 1:25).
As the counterfeit church prepares to light its pagan tree, faithful Catholics recall Pius XI’s words: “Pax Christi in regno Christi – The peace of Christ in the kingdom of Christ.” There will be no peace until Rome’s occupiers repent and restore the Social Reign of Christ the King. Until then, the obelisk stands as a silent witness: even in desolation, God permits monuments to truth, awaiting the day when “every knee shall bow” (Philippians 2:10) before the only authentic Nativity – the Blessed Virgin’s Fiat that crushed the serpent’s head.
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Vatican's 2025 Christmas tree installed in St. Peter's Square (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 27.11.2025