Got to St Peter’s square today about 15 minutes after this stunt was pulled. Here is my reply to ebbtide on my opinion of this year’s Nativity scene:
Yes we saw it and it is both underwhelming and condescending. The celebration of our Lord and Savior’s birth should be a time of “Joy to the world” not an opportunity for the social justice crowd to use Christmas for a cheap, in your face statement about the sufferings of a certain portion of mankind. Interesting enough, there were Swiss Guards just a few hundred feet from the display guarding an entrance to a private Vatican residence. What’s up with that? Why not let everyone in to do anything they want, huh?
I say this as Mrs. Shark24 just finished working long hours prior to arriving here managing two large parish Christmas projects at a homeless facility and also a family shelter where food and gifts for the guests (including toys for the children) where given out. It is what we do as Christians.
Since I was meeting my wife here from Abu Dhabi where I’ve been working for the last two months doing aerospace stuff out of a military base there (including flying flight test and training for our friends there), I am not letting anything “harsh my Xmas buzz” right now. Just hearing the beautiful church bells here during the day as opposed to the “call to prayer” from the other guys in the other place is enough to remind me of the wonderful graces we still receive from our Catholic Faith and they are more than ever, worth defending. God bless!
At least the Nativity in the Basilica was traditional and beautiful. Cheers.
What certain portion of Mankind was supposed to be suffering? I couldn't tell from the picture.
We've never been there for Christmas but we were there for Easter and it was wonderful. Sorry to hear that SJW's have taken over.
“The celebration of our Lord and Savior’s birth should be a time of “Joy to the world” not an opportunity for the social justice crowd to use Christmas for a cheap, in your face statement about the sufferings of a certain portion of mankind. “
Read Luke someday. Jesus teaches you why mercy is necessary and pleases the Father.
Cheers, Shark! I’m in France at the moment and I saw a lovely Nativity at the Cathedral of Notre Dame and then I saw a completely freaky, ugly one at the Church of the Madeleine, which was obviously done to reflect the ugly Francis program.
But what was strange was that less than 150 years earlier, this was a church that had lost its beloved pastor to the “Comunards” (a vicious radical leftist takeover of Paris that most Americans don’t even know about) in the 1870s, along with the Archbishop of Paris. This Archbishop was actually the third Archbishop of Paris to be executed by leftists in the 19th century. And nobody knows about it or acknowledges it, least of all our petty Pope.
But as you say, the bad stuff is not really what matters. Merry Christmas!
Thank you for your service!