Vatican’s Christmas Campaign: Substituting Sacred for Secular Spectacle
The Vatican News portal (December 29, 2025) reports that large screens near the Vatican display images and messages from antipope Robert Prevost (“Leo XIV”) as part of a Christmas initiative by the Dicastery for Communication. The campaign, running through December 31, features photographs of the antipope alongside phrases promoting “peace, hope, and fraternity,” described as a “sign of spiritual closeness.” The project, conducted with the advertising company Selfiestreet, replaces commercial advertisements in Rome’s public spaces, including areas adjacent to Vatican Museums.
Profanation of Sacred Space Through Naturalistic Spectacle
The article boasts that “images of Pope Leo XIV dominate the façades of buildings across Rome” where “brightly colored advertisements for travel packages and holiday desserts” typically appear. This substitution of commercial materialism with personality cult imagery exemplifies the conciliar sect’s reduction of Christianity to a social brand. Pius XI condemned such secularized displays in Quas Primas (1925), teaching that Christ’s Kingship demands “public veneration” through liturgy and doctrinal clarity—not publicity stunts mimicking corporate marketing.
The screens display “photographs and reflections drawn from his speeches” devoid of references to the Nativity’s theological significance: the Incarnation, Redemption, or the necessity of sacramental grace. This omission aligns with Modernist heresy condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane (1907), which rejected the notion that “Revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Proposition 20).
Erasure of Supernatural Reality in Favor of Earthly Sentiment
Nowhere does the initiative mention Christ’s birth as the Verbum caro factum (the Word made flesh) or the imperative to “adore the Lord” (Psalm 96:9). Instead, it peddles vacuous slogans about “peace, hope, and fraternity“—terms stripped of their theological substance and reduced to naturalistic platitudes. This reflects the conciliar revolution’s abandonment of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (outside the Church there is no salvation) in favor of universalist indifferentism condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (1864):
“Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation” (Proposition 16).
The claim that “the Holy Father’s message” offers “spiritual closeness” is particularly deceitful. True spiritual closeness flows from valid sacraments administered by priests in communion with the Church’s perennial Magisterium—not from digital billboards promoting a usurper of the Apostolic See.
Sacrilegious Substitution of Sacramental Economy With Media Performance
By partnering with Selfiestreet—a company specializing in viral marketing—the Dicastery for Communication reduces the Vicar of Christ’s role to that of a social media influencer. This sacrilege echoes the Masonic demand to “separate the Church from the State” (Syllabus of Errors, Proposition 55), privatizing religion while elevating human spectacle to the level of sacred ritual.
The article’s focus on “messages for the Christmas season” carefully avoids mentioning Midnight Mass, Eucharistic adoration, or the obligation to worship the newborn King. This silence proves the conciliar sect’s adherence to the Modernist tenet that “dogmas are not truths of divine origin but interpretations of religious facts” (Lamentabili Sane, Proposition 22).
Symptomatic Apostasy of the Conciliar Sect
This campaign epitomizes the neo-church’s identity as the “abomination of desolation” (Daniel 9:27), replacing sacramental altars with electronic screens and divine worship with mass entertainment. As Pius XI warned, societies that “renounce and do not wish to recognize the reign of our Savior” (Quas Primas) inevitably descend into spiritual desolation.
The article’s closing appeal to “support us in bringing the Pope’s words into every home” inverts the Church’s true mission: to bring Christ’s Word into every soul through valid sacraments and doctrinal fidelity. This diabolical inversion confirms that the Vatican apparatus now operates as a “synagogue of Satan” (Revelation 2:9), using pagan spectacle to distract souls from the coming judgment.
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Pope's images and words light up the Eternal City for Christmas (vaticannews.va)
Date: 29.12.2025