Nativity Amidst Occupation: The Hollow “Solidarity” of Modernist Prelates
The Vatican News portal (December 22, 2025) reports on Christmas preparations in Taybeh, a West Bank village described as “the only entirely Christian” Palestinian community. The article frames the situation as a tension between “Christmas joy” and fear of Israeli settler attacks, noting recent arson against vehicles and farmland. It highlights the presence of French “bishop” Hughues de Woillemont (Å’uvre d’Orient) and other modernist figures at a Latin parish Mass, presenting this as solidarity. The report laments Christian emigration (15 families recently left) while promoting “peaceful resistance” and interfaith coexistence.
Naturalism Masquerading as Pastoral Concern
The article reduces the Church’s mission to mere humanitarianism, stating Taybeh’s Christians need “funding to projects aiming at the sustainment of local Christian communities.” This ignores the primary purpose of the Church: the salvation of souls through the One True Faith (Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus). Not once does the text mention:
the necessity of converting non-Catholics, the Sacraments as means of grace, or the duty to profess Christ’s Social Kingship over Palestine and Israel alike.
Instead, it promotes a false irenicism, praising Taybeh’s clergy for teaching “not to use violence in their schools” while omitting that Christian justice demands the expulsion of unjust occupiers—a principle upheld by pre-1958 popes like Pius XI, who taught that nations must “render public worship and obedience to Christ” (Quas Primas, §31). The report’s focus on material “sustainment” echoes the modernist heresy condemned by St. Pius X: reducing religion to “a kind of society for humanitarian aims” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, §39).
False Irenicism and Apostate “Clergy”
The presence of French modernists like “Bishop” Woillemont—a collaborator with the conciliar sect’s structures—exposes the article’s ideological bankruptcy. These figures belong to a hierarchy that has publicly denied Christ’s exclusive rights over nations (cf. Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae). Their “support” for Taybeh is not Catholic charity but a political maneuver, akin to Judas offering alms before betrayal. True Catholic solidarity would demand:
public condemnation of Zionist persecution, calls for the conversion of Jews and Muslims, and the restoration of Catholic monarchy in the Holy Land.
Instead, the article promotes dialogue with the very forces destroying Christendom. Notably absent is any reference to Muslim persecution of Christians in Gaza or the West Bank, revealing the conciliar sect’s obsession with vilifying Israel while excusing Islamic tyranny—a dichotomy rooted in Marxist liberation theology, not Catholic truth.
The Silence of Apostasy: Where Is the Church’s Voice?
Taybeh’s plight exemplifies the spiritual barrenness of Eastern Catholicism under modernist occupation. The Melkite Greek church mentioned lies in ruins, symbolizing how Eastern rites—once bastions of orthodoxy—have been gutted by ecumenism. The article admits a Melkite family will soon emigrate, yet ignores why: without the true Mass and sacraments, these communities have no supernatural vitality. The “Mass” celebrated by Taybeh’s Latin priest is undoubtedly the Novus Ordo—an invalid simulation that cannot confer grace. Thus, the “hundred people” at the Eucharist are tragically deprived of the True Sacrifice, left with empty rituals and “light garlands” instead of the Light of the World.
The True Solution: Christ the King, Not UN Resolutions
While the report cites Israeli colonization as the problem, it offers no Catholic solution—only secular NGOs and diplomatic whimpers. Contrast this with Pope Pius X’s uncompromising stance:
“The Church, guardian of the truth… cannot tolerate that error be set on equal footing with truth” (Vehementer Nos, §3).
Palestine’s Christians need not “sustainment” but conversion—to reject modernism, demand the Latin Mass, and recognize the antipapal usurpers in Rome as wolves. Until then, their “Christmas joy” is a fleeting comfort, for “what fellowship hath light with darkness?” (2 Cor 6:14). The article’s closing image—a crib beside an altar—mocks the Incarnation, reducing Bethlehem’s King to a passive infant, silent before His enemies. But Christ shall return as Judge, and “in righteousness he doth judge and make war” (Apoc 19:11). Let Taybeh’s faithful heed this, lest their village become another relic of apostasy.
Source:
Christmas joy eases fear for future in West Bank Christian village (vaticannews.va)
Date: 22.12.2025