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By Jules Gomes, Church Militant, December 12, 2020

Art historians lampoon crib figures as fertility goddesses, ceramic sockets

VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) – The Vatican’s Christmas crib has been swamped by a tidal wave of mockery and outrage, with laity and art historians linking the “syncretist,” “brutalist,” “modernist,” and “masonic” manger to Pope Francis’ compromised Catholicism.

An astronaut in the Vatican’s 2020 crib

Catholics on social media and art critics in the mainstream press lampooned the Nativity scene after it was installed in St. Peter’s Square Friday evening, accompanied by an almost audible sigh of Weltschmerz and a round of feeble applause.

“Forget the sweet face of the Madonna, the tender, luminous incarnation of the Child Jesus, the paternal sweetness of St. Joseph and the devout wonder of the shepherds,” warned Italian art historian Andrea Cionci.

“For the first time in the middle of Bernini’s colonnade, the Vatican has erected a brutally postmodern work dating back to the sixties,” Cionci remonstrated in Libero Quotidiano, asking if the crib was a “nightmare or a masterpiece.” …

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