Posted on 12/11/2020 6:06:15 PM PST by marshmallow
So the Vatican presepe has been unveiled....turns out 2020 could get worse,’ art historian Elizabeth Lev tweeted.
VATICAN CITY, December 11, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — The Vatican nativity scene, unveiled during an evening ceremony today in St. Peter’s Square, has been roundly ridiculed and scorned as a modernist insult to the Incarnation and the Holy Family.
“This year, more than ever, the staging of the traditional space dedicated to Christmas in St. Peter’s Square is meant to be a sign of hope and trust for the whole world,” a Vatican statement about the scene had promised earlier.
“It expresses the certainty that Jesus comes among his people to save and console them,” continued the Vatican statement, “an important message in this difficult time due to the COVID-19 health emergency.”
Despite the Vatican’s promise, the figures — all of which are contemporary ceramic interpretations of the normally familiar figures featured in the portrayal of the birth of Christ in a Bethlehem stable two thousand years ago — are virtually unrecognizable.
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Is the Pope Catholic?
Who knows?
Looks like Leggos...
Ping
It’s appalling beyond belief. Made by students in they heyday of VII, the late 60s and 70s.
I guess the Vatican has been treasuring it all these decades, waiting for the right moment to bring it out, the moment when people really needed a little more ugliness and unbelief.
Looks like “It’s a Small World” on acid.
I don’t remember an astronaut being present at the birth of Christ. What is this crap?
I had no idea that The Son of God was also incarnate on another planet, in a galaxy far, far away.
(((I am an artist, and tend to “modern”, but that is just UGLY.)))
I am even beginning to have doubts about the bathroom habits of bears.
Sure and begorra...a spaceman...That represents the space between the popes ears...
It’s Francis. I’m surprised it wasn’t a bunch of trannies in drag with Mary and Joseph both gay men.
Dont you remember the gay nativity a few years ago?
“2020 Vatican Nativity Scene Meets Universal Ridicule and Scorn”
Which was the Pope’s intent.
It’s so.... so..... 2020.
“Vatican City? You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.”
Note also.......the emphasis......Huge Powerful Angel.....looming over all.....
......a tiny tiny tiniest Jesus hidden in obscurity waaaaay behind other larger, more prominent figures!!! Guess we know which person is most important to Pope Francis.
Weebles wobble but they don’t fall down
As well it should.
At some point, Roman Catholicism needs to stop pretending that it’s actually a church or representative of Christ to the world.
wasn't that just a year or two ago?
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