Vatican News portal (December 24, 2025) reports on a “Christmas Mass during the Night” presided over by antipope Robert Prevost (“Leo XIV”), who encouraged attendees to announce “the joy of Christmas” as “a feast of faith, charity and hope.” The homily superficially referenced Luke 2:11’s “Savior… the Messiah, the Lord” while insisting God “gives us nothing less than his very self” through an infant who “shares in history with all his brothers and sisters.” Prevost invoked antipope Bergoglio’s (“Francis”) 2024 Jubilee Year message about hope not disappointing and quoted antipope Ratzinger’s (“Benedict XVI”) claim that “if we make room for the human person, then there is room for God.” The address concluded by framing Christmas through naturalistic “faith, charity, and hope” devoid of doctrinal substance, accompanied by photogallery links and a donation request.
Naturalistic Reduction of the Incarnation
The homily’s core error lies in reducing the Verbum caro factum est (“the Word was made flesh,” Jn 1:14) to a vague “spark newly lit” and “love story that draws us in.” Contrast this with Pius IX’s Qui pluribus condemning those who “remove Jesus Christ and His most holy law from customs, private, family, and public life.” Prevost’s “God living among us” rhetoric deliberately avoids stating Christ’s exclusive divinity and authority over nations, reducing Him to a symbolic “word of hope” rather than the Rex Regum (“King of Kings”) who “must reign” (1 Cor 15:25).
“In response to the expectations of peoples, he sends a child to be a word of hope.”
This echoes Modernist heresy condemned in Pius X’s Lamentabili (Proposition 22): “The dogmas… are not truths of divine origin but… interpretations of religious facts.” By framing Christ as a response to human “expectations” rather than the Logos whose Nativity judges all nations (Ps 2:10-12), the neo-church subordinates revelation to anthropocentric sentiment.
Omission of Christ’s Kingship and Final Judgment
Notably absent is any mention of Christ’s social reign, despite Pius XI’s Quas Primas decreeing that “the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” Instead, Prevost speaks of “humanity in every new life” and “fraternal self-giving” – code for the conciliar sect’s apostate substitution of God’s law with human rights. The homily’s sole reference to “salvation” lacks the Church’s defined understanding of grace through the sacraments, implying universalist innuendo condemned by Pius XII’s Humani Generis.
“The omnipotence of God shines forth in the powerlessness of a newborn.”
This inversion mocks Philippians 2:7’s exinanivit (“emptied himself”). Christ’s kenosis affirms, not negates, His divine authority – a truth Pius XII’s Sempiternus Rex defends against “those who pretend the Redeemer… exercised no authority over civil society.” By fixating on “powerlessness,” Prevost advances the neo-church’s revolutionary agenda to equate Christ with political victimhood.
Canonization of Modernist Heretics
The homily’s reliance on antipopes Ratzinger and Bergoglio exposes its doctrinal bankruptcy. Ratzinger’s “room for God” through “human persons” contradicts Boniface VIII’s Unam Sanctam: “It is necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff.” Bergoglio’s “hope does not disappoint” perverts Romans 5:5 into a temporal utopianism, denying the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary as the sole font of hope.
Photographic Idolatry and Fundraising Blasphemy
The appended photogallery and donation plea (“Your contribution for a great mission”) confirm the ceremony’s theatrical nature. Contrast this with Canon 1262 of the 1917 Code forbidding Masses amid “unbecoming noises” and Pius XI’s Divini Cultus warning against “profane” elements in liturgy. The fundraising pitch reduces the Nativity to a NGO campaign, fulfilling Pius X’s prophecy in Pascendi that Modernists would make the Church “a humanitarian agency.”
Theological Conclusions
This “Christmas message” exemplifies the conciliar sect’s apostasy through:
1. Naturalism: Treating Christ’s birth as a mythological “love story” (Syllabus of Errors, Proposition 13).
2. Religious Indifferentism: Implying all “humanity” is saved without conversion (condemned in Quanto conficiamur).
3. Denial of Social Kingship: Omitting Christ’s right to rule nations (Quas Primas).
As St. Pius X warned in Notre Charge Apostolique, such “false democracy” seeks to “deify humanity” by replacing the Gospel with “a deformed Christianity.” True Catholics must reject this blasphemous pantomise and adore the Dominus noster Christus (“Our Lord Christ”) whose Nativity inaugurates His eternal reign.
Source:
Pope Leo: Announce the joy of Christmas, a feast of faith, charity, and hope (vaticannews.va)
Date: 24.12.2025