Nativity Art Contest Mirrors Conciliar Sect’s Naturalistic Deviations
The CNA portal reports on an art competition organized by the “Missionary Childhood Association” (MCA), a subsidiary of the post-conciliar “Pontifical Mission Societies.” Children from various dioceses created Nativity scenes, with winning works displayed at the conciliar sect’s Washington shrine and sent to antipope Leo XIV. “Msgr.” Vito Buonanno—associate rector of the modernist “Basilica of the National Shrine”—praised the event as celebrating “family” and “God becoming one of us,” while MCA director Alixandra Holden called the artwork “a proclamation of the good news.” The ceremony occurred amidst Advent celebrations blending sentimentalism with the conciliar sect’s anthropocentric theology.
Naturalism Disguised as Piety: The MCA’s Anthropocentric Framework
The MCA’s stated mission—”to help children grow in faith by teaching them to pray and sacrifice for other children around the world”—reveals the conciliar sect’s departure from Catholic soteriology. Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (Outside the Church there is no salvation) is replaced with a horizontal humanitarianism where prayer and sacrifice serve global solidarity rather than the conversion of souls. Pius XI condemned such naturalism in Quas Primas, emphasizing that Christ’s Kingship requires nations to “obey the laws and dictates of Christ the Lord” (¶19). The MCA’s reduction of missionary work to art contests and vague “sharing Christ’s love” echoes Paul VI’s apostate declaration that “the Church serves mankind” (Populorum Progressio, ¶1), subordinating divine truth to human sentiment.
Buonanno’s statement that the Nativity reminds us “how important family is” epitomizes this inversion. While Catholic doctrine recognizes the Holy Family’s supernatural exemplarity—”a perfect model of domestic society” (Leo XIII, Neminem Fugit)—the conciliar official reduces it to naturalistic “identity” and “sacrifices that we make for family.” The Incarnation’s primary purpose—“propter nostram salutem descendit de caelis” (for our salvation He came down from heaven, Nicene Creed)—is conspicuously absent. This aligns with Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes, which praises earthly progress while omitting man’s need for redemption from original sin (¶3, 12).
Art as Propaganda: Eroding Dogmatic Foundations
Holden’s claim that children’s artwork constitutes “a testament to our faith” ignores the Church’s stringent norms for sacred art. Pius XII’s Mediator Dei mandated that liturgical art “conform to ecclesiastical laws” and avoid “a mere attempt at some original form of expression” (¶195). The winning entries—described as using “pencil, marker, or paint” without reference to iconographic tradition—reflect the modernist heresy condemned in Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane: “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him” (Proposition 58). By encouraging subjective artistic interpretations of the Nativity, the MCA fosters the very indifferentism Pius IX anathematized: “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation” (Syllabus of Errors, Proposition 15).
The display at the conciliar “National Shrine”—a structure consecrated in 1959 after Vatican II’s theological corruption began—further demonstrates the sect’s architectural apostasy. Contrast this with Pius XI’s requirement that churches be designed “to excite faith and piety in those who behold them” (Divini Cultus, ¶5). The shrine’s modernist architecture, like the artwork it houses, replaces sacramental symbolism with empty aestheticism.
Submission to Antipapal Authority: A Grave Spiritual Danger
Sending winning artwork to antipope Leo XIV constitutes formal participation in the conciliar sect’s schism. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code explicitly nullifies the authority of clerics who “publicly defect from the Catholic faith”—a condition fulfilled by all post-1958 Vatican claimants. St. Robert Bellarmine’s doctrine is clear: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope” (De Romano Pontifice II.30). When children are taught to venerate a false pope, they are led into what Pius IX called “the perverse inclinations of a depraved nature and the machinations of Satan” (Syllabus of Errors, Introduction).
Buonanno’s assertion that the Novus Ordo service is “where we are truly experiencing what it means to be one, holy, Catholic, and apostolic Church” compounds this sacrilege. Pius XII forbade altering the liturgy precisely because “no private person has any authority to change” what belongs to the Church’s “substance” (Mediator Dei, ¶58). The Novus Ordo—crafted by Freemason Annibale Bugnini—replaces the propitiatory sacrifice with a communal meal, rendering it “evil in its very substance” (Cardinals Ottaviani & Bacci, Critical Study of the New Mass). Children participating in this pseudo-liturgy are victims of what St. Pius X termed “the synthesis of all heresies” (Pascendi, ¶39).
Omissions That Condemn: Silence on Doctrine and Grace
The article’s glaring omissions expose the conciliar sect’s apostasy:
- No mention of the Mass: The true Nativity anticipates Christ’s sacrifice on Calvary, re-presented in the Tridentine Mass—yet Buonanno’s “celebration” occurs in a rite that denies transubstantiation.
- No call to conversion: The MCA speaks of “sharing Christ’s love” but omits His command to “make disciples of all nations, baptizing them” (Matthew 28:19).
- No distinction between truth and error: Holden praises art created in dioceses led by modernists like “Archbishop” José Gomez (Los Angeles) and “Bishop” Michael Olson (Fort Worth), both enforcers of Vatican II’s heresies.
This event embodies the conciliar sect’s betrayal of Pius XI’s mandate: “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” (Quas Primas, ¶19). Instead, the MCA cultivates a generation ignorant of the Social Kingship of Christ—a generation ripe for the Antichrist’s delusions.
Source:
Young artists’ images of Nativity win awards from Missionary Childhood Association (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 05.12.2025