It mostly has little pastel globes strung together and twinkle lights with an 8-pointed star on top.
Growing up, a true star had 5 points, but not pointing down like the Satanist star (which I wouldn't have known back then).
Posted on 12/23/2017 2:45:52 PM PST by NKP_Vet
ROME, Italy, December 22, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – The decorations on the Vatican Christmas tree in St. Peter's Square this year are devoid of Christian religious symbols, a veteran Vaticanist reports.
"Look," a friend of Dr. Robert Moynihan pointed out to him. "There are peace signs, and the oriental yin-yang signs, but no angels, no depictions of the Magi, no images of Mary, nothing but universal symbols.”
"We have not seen a single religious symbol, not a single Christian symbol, on the tree."
Close up of the 2017 Vatican Christmas tree showing a yin-yang symbol.Dr. Robert Moynihan Continued Moynihan: “And I too saw that there seemed not to be a single Christian symbol on the tree, unless the star on the top of the tree could be considered a sign of the star that led the Magi to the Christ-child.”
The report came in Moynihan’s December 20 eLetter, which recounted his running into two friends recently while walking through St. Peter's Square. Moynihan is the founder and editor-in-chief of Inside the Vatican magazine.
Moynihan said his friends were alarmed about the tree decorations.
“Many nuns in Rome say they are shocked and are very worried about the message these decorations are sending to the youngest,” Moynihan’s friend said. “I wish I knew the Pope's secretaries to tell them to tell the Pope what is on the Square, if really the Holy Father wants to go and to bless such things. The worst thing for all these sponsors would be for the Pope not to come to the Square on December 31.”
The tree is a gift to the Vatican from Poland. It was Pope St. John Paul II who established the tradition of Christmas trees in St. Peter’s Square decades ago.
Media reports by and large on the ornaments followed the Vatican report’s lead, mentioning that the ornaments were created by children receiving treatment at several Italian hospitals and children from the Italian Archdiocese of Spoleto-Norcia, which was rocked by earthquakes in 2016.
News reports discussed the ornaments being made of synthetic materials to stand up to winter weather, but not the ornaments’ designs.
Moynihan’s friends told him that in past years, the Christmas tree had been decorated with brilliant white and yellow balls, denoting the Vatican colors.
The two said as well they had written a letter to the Government of Vatican City, protesting the decorations on the Christmas tree.
Controversy continues to swirl around the Vatican Nativity for its particular approach to using nudity. Facebook flagged the image of this year’s Nativity display for being “sexually suggestive or provocative.”
The tree and the Nativity scene are set to remain in St Peter’s Square until the evening of Sunday, January 7, 2018, when the Church celebrates the feast of the Lord’s Baptism.
The Vatican under the current Pope may have gone over to the other side - the spirit of antichrist.
It’s coming...
Hopefully Catholics will have a Catholic Pope again some day.
Has anybody checked or seen the Pope’s long-form birth certificate? Just wondering if he may be more native to Kenya or something...
Never miss an opportunity to please your mussulman friends ...
“Peace” symbols and yin-yangs?
666 is coming.
But it was never a Christian symbol anyway, right?
Jeremiah 10
1 Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
2 Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
“Hopefully Catholics will have a Catholic Pope again some day.”
Not to worry....there is someone higher up then Il Pape. Just write this guy off as an abberation like Obama.
A bear still craps in the woods, but the Pope is no longer Catholic.
When you go Pagan, you might as well go “all out.”
Why would anyone think that an organization led by a communist dictator would have Christian symbols?
#FireFrancis
#BringBackBenedict
I have a lovely photo of a Vatican Christmas tree with only lights. You might hang your hat on things that this Pope does or doesn’t do, but decorating the Vatican Christmas tree probably isn’t among them.
https://goo.gl/images/4AYMdJ
The current pope seems to be leaving all kinds of hints and messages as to his real purpose....
Did you say your photo had just lights?
It mostly has little pastel globes strung together and twinkle lights with an 8-pointed star on top.
Growing up, a true star had 5 points, but not pointing down like the Satanist star (which I wouldn't have known back then).
He should be defrocked, tried for heresy and burned at the stake. I can’t stand the sight or sound of this guy anymore. He us no Pope, no Catholic and no Christian.
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