You need to bone up on that history, and then you’d know the significance (insignificance?) of the pope to them.
The Protestants of VA, and sects in the Colonies, are not the Puritans. The topic here is the Puritans.
So you’re saying that Puritan hatred of the Pope was their reason for hating Christmas?
Did the Puritans hate the Lutherans and Anglicans and other Christmas celebrators too?
Well actually they probably did, since banishing people who weren’t in complete agreement with Puritan doctrine was one of their practices.