Conciliar Sect’s Bethlehem Homily Promotes Naturalist Distortion of Incarnation
The EWTN portal (December 25, 2025) reports on a Christmas Eve homily delivered by conciliar sect official Mr. Pierbattista Pizzaballa in Bethlehem, promoting the heretical notion that God sanctifies unrepentant human history through mere presence rather than demanding conversion. The address reduces the Incarnation to divine acquiescence to human rebellion against Christ the King.
Theological Subversion of the Incarnation
Mr. Pizzaballa’s central assertion – that God “does not wait for history to improve before entering into it” – constitutes a direct attack on the regnum sociale Christi (social kingship of Christ) defined by Pius XI. The encyclical Quas Primas (1925) explicitly condemns such naturalism: “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” (n.19). By contrast, the conciliar official suggests God legitimizes pagan governance structures (“the emperor’s decree… becomes an instrument of a greater plan”), directly contradicting Psalm 2:10-12’s command to “serve the Lord with fear… lest He be angry”.
The homily’s repeated emphasis on God operating within secular power structures (“no situation is too dark for God to dwell in it”) echoes the condemned Modernist error that “revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Holy Office, Lamentabili, 1907, n.20). This reduces the Incarnation to immanentist process rather than the catastrophic invasion of Verbum caro factum (the Word made flesh) which “casts down the mighty from their thrones” (Luke 1:52).
Omission of Divine Judgment and Necessity of Conversion
Nowhere does Mr. Pizzaballa mention the Metanoia (repentance) demanded by St. John the Baptist as prerequisite for receiving Christ (Matthew 3:2). His claim that Christmas represents “a school of responsibility” replaces the Gospel’s kerygma with anthropocentric moralism, violating the Council of Trent’s condemnation of justification through human effort (Session VI, Canon I). The homily’s silence about the Four Last Things (Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell) constitutes pastoral malpractice, ignoring Pius XII’s warning that “the sin of the century is the loss of the sense of sin” (Radio Message, 1946).
False Peace Versus Kingship of Christ
The conciliar official’s definition of peace as “the fruit of God’s presence in history” deliberately omits Pius XI’s teaching that “peace is only possible in the Kingdom of Christ” (Quas Primas, n.1). By reducing peace to “humble gestures” rather than submission to divine law, the address embodies the Syllabus of Errors condemnation of those who claim “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization” (Pius IX, 1864, n.80). This Modernist distortion directly opposes St. Augustine’s De Civitate Dei which distinguishes the City of God from the City of Man.
Symptomatic of Conciliar Apostasy
The Bethlehem homily follows the hermeneutic of rupture condemned in St. Pius X’s Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907), treating the Incarnation as evolutionary process rather than supernatural event. Its focus on political context (“years of great suffering… war, violence, hunger”) while ignoring sacramental remedies exposes the conciliar sect’s abandonment of ex opere operato grace. The refusal to call nations to baptismal regeneration constitutes a denial of Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus (Outside the Church there is no salvation), defined infallibly at the Council of Florence (1442).
Mr. Pizzaballa’s assertion that “no time is ever truly lost” implicitly denies the eschatological urgency proclaimed by Christ: “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” (Matthew 4:17). This naturalist distortion transforms the Gospel into a mere “consciousness of our difficulties” – precisely the Modernist heresy condemned in Lamentabili (n.58). By substituting social activism for sacramental regeneration, the conciliar sect fulfills Pius X’s prophecy that Modernists would reduce Christianity to “a phenomenon of human conscience” (Pascendi, n.6).
Source:
Latin patriarch of Jerusalem: ‘God does not wait for history to improve before entering into it’ (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 25.12.2025