December 25, 2025
The Pope’s Christmas statements wrapped leftist political values in religious garb
By Andrea Widburg
Pope Leo, in his two Christmas homilies during the Christmas Eve and Christmas Day masses and his Christmas message from the balcony above St. Peter’s Square, showed himself to be unusually focused on Gaza. He seemed more exercised by the plight of Ukrainians and (Muslim) Gazans than by the mass slaughter and oppression of Christians across the Middle East and Africa. He also found time to attack immigration enforcement and capitalism. I know that, being Jewish, I’m the ultimate outsider, so I devoutly hope I’m not offending anyone here, but the whole thing struck me as a weirdly political way to welcome in the Christmas season.
Leo’s odd messages began with the Christmas Eve mass, when he attacked capitalism:
While a distorted economy leads us to treat human beings as mere merchandise, God becomes like us, revealing the infinite dignity of every person.
Yes, capitalism can be abused, but he’s got the whole thing bass-ackwards. It’s in Marxist economies where people are simply widgets of the state, forced to work at its command.
In a truly capitalist economy, one in which the state acts to prevent fraud and other criminal acts, individuals strive for themselves and, along the way, enrich others. There’s a reason that the wealth of the world—a world in which almost all people had once lived in abject poverty—skyrocketed when capitalism finally took hold.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/12/the_pope_s_christmas_statements_wrapped_leftist_political_values_in_religious_garb.html
