After a difficult 2020, every Catholic must be looking forward to Christmas as a reprieve from the gloom.
Unfortunately, someone at the Vatican has decided that Catholics deserve just one more dose of misery after being locked out from the sacraments for most of the year.
As far back as early November, there were reports that this Nativity scene would be a ‘sign of hope’ during the pandemic. The Vatican City Governate had stated that it ‘wants to express the certainty that Jesus comes among his people to save and console them’.
Consolation has been the last that it has inspired unfortunately.
Childish, uncultured, postmodern, godless. There is not a single positive adjective which could describe this gauche and laughable attempt to provide the world’s Catholics with something to help them to dwell on Christmas.
One Twitter user compared it to ‘something a toddler would make if he had access to concrete, sheets of copper and pasta’.
Other Twitter users questioned the bizarre depiction of the Three Wise Men as ‘Astronauts’.
Like many of the innovations of the church in the past century, this has a very simple message. The Modernists are going to tell you how to feel and you have no choice in the matter. If they tell you that ugly statues and ugly buildings are beautiful, then it is your fault if you disagree.
Perhaps next year, both Christ and His people will be put centre stage at the Vatican, rather than self indulgent Modernists.