The Hollow “Peace” of Bethlehem’s Betrayers
The Vatican News portal (December 20, 2025) publishes a Christmas message by Ibrahim Faltas, a Franciscan friar of the Custody of the Holy Land, lamenting violence in Gaza while promoting a naturalistic “peace” divorced from the Kingship of Christ. The text decries suffering yet omits the necessity of societal conversion to Christ the King, reducing the Incarnation to a vague humanitarian symbol.









