‘Grace for the World’: Vatican Hosts Fancy Concert and Light Show to Promote Human Fraternity

Boondoggle in St. Peter’s Square with scandalous performers…

‘Grace for the World’: Vatican Hosts Spectacular Concert and Light Show to Promote Human Fraternity

One week after allowing a ‘gay pride’ parade to process through the Holy Door into St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican has doubled down with another horrendous spectacle.

From 9 to 11 pm local time on Sep. 13, 2025, St. Peter’s Square was turned into a venue for a flashy, elaborately-produced musical concert and light show to close out the third annual World Meeting on Human Fraternity. (We recall here what a complete flop the first such meeting was two years ago.)

The event, grossly entitled Grace for the World, was streamed live by Disney+, Hulu, and ABC News Live. A dedicated web site was even put together for the occasion. It began with a rendition of the Protestant hymn Amazing Grace by Andrea Bocelli and Teddy Swims. The official Vatican host was ‘Cardinal’ Mauro Gambetti.

The extravaganza can be watched in its entirety here (or here):

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Among the celebrity performers were the famous Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, American singer Teddy Swims, French-Beninese singer Angélique Kidjo, American rappers John Legend and the heavily-tattooed Jelly Roll, the Thai rapper BamBam, the American hip hop duo Clipse, and the hypersexual Colombian reggaeton singer Karol G.

Life Site commented on the lineup:

While several of the performers are controversial picks for a Vatican-hosted concert, Karol G’s public presentation is particularly at odds with Catholic, Christian ethics. Her performances and especially her music videos typically involve pornographic gestures and dress, which tend to be especially pronounced in her genre. Even in appearances on popular shows like The Tonight Show, she is so scantily clad that she is virtually half-nude.

Pharrell rivals Karol G as an unbecoming choice for a Vatican concert headliner. He has produced, written and performed a great deal of sexually provocative and otherwise immoral music.

(Emily Mangiaracina, “Hypersexual reggaeton singer Karol G to perform at Vatican concert”, Life Site, Sep. 9, 2025)

Once again the Modernist-occupied Vatican shows itself to be at great pains to please and ingratiate itself with the secular world. This isn’t about obtaining grace for the world, it’s about obtaining praise from the world.

One of the highlights of the event was a drone light show, that is, a display in the night sky made up of light-emitting drones. In the first few minutes of the spectacle, the drones showed the late ‘Pope’ Francis peeking over St. Peter’s Basilica — utterly creepy:

Peek-a-boo!
(image: Getty/Ernesto Ruscio; rights-managed)

Another disturbing drone-generated image hovering over the historic basilica was the 2025 Jubilee year logo:

(image: Getty/Anadolu; rights-managed)

This is not the first time that St. Peter’s Basilica was used as a prop for a light show, by the way. Let’s remember that ten years ago, on Dec. 8, 2015, the facade of St. Peter’s Basilica had effectively been turned into a giant projector screen for a climate-change-themed light show called Fiat Lux (‘let there be light’).

So, Bergoglio may be gone; but Bergoglianism is alive and well.

That the Vatican should host such an event is bad enough; that they should name it Grace for the World is adding insult to injury. God’s grace is obtained through prayer, the sacraments, the corporal and spiritual works of mercy; through penance, fasting, and almsgiving, etc. There is nothing wrong with trying to ‘build a better world’, but for it to end up truly better, it must be done in light of the Gospel.

In 1952, Pope Pius XII in a radio address outlined how to create a truly better world that is built not on the principles of Freemasonic ‘human fraternity’ but on the principles of the true Gospel of Jesus Christ:

This fatherly exhortation, beloved sons and daughters of Rome, comes to you from Our heart—from Our heart which is troubled on the one hand over the prolongation, without any definitive clarification, of the dangerous situation of the world around us, and on the other, by a far too widespread listlessness which prevents many from undertaking that return to Jesus Christ, the Church and the Christian way of life which We have often singled out as the decisive remedy for the universal crisis agitating the world. But the confidence that We shall find in you the comfort of understanding, as well as determined readiness for action, has moved Us to open Our heart to you. Today, give heed to a rousing call from the lips of your Father and Shepherd, from Us who cannot remain mute and inert before a world which is unconsciously walking paths which sweep on to ruin both souls and bodies, the good and the wicked, civilization and peoples. …

To share with you these anxieties of Ours, We have chosen the eve of tomorrow’s feast of the Virgin of Lourdes, because it commemorates the miraculous apparitions which, almost a hundred years ago, in that century of rationalistic aberration and religious depression, were the merciful answer of God and His Heavenly Mother to the rebellion of men, an irresistible summons back to the supernatural, and the first step towards a progressive religious renascence. …

Now you are aware that the dangers at present threatening this generation are much more widespread and grave than pestilence and the convulsions of nature, even though their continuing threat has begun to make the nations almost insensible and apathetic. …

Even the Holy Year [of 1950], which brought on a prodigious flowering of Christian life, unfolding first in your midst and then spreading out over the entire world, should not be regarded merely as a brilliant but fleeting meteor, nor as a momentary obligation long since fulfilled. Rather should it be viewed as a first promising step towards the complete restoration of the spirit of the Gospel which, in addition to snatching millions of souls from eternal ruin, is the only thing that can assure the peaceful co-existence and fruitful collaboration of peoples.

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It is an entire world which must be rebuilt from its foundations, transformed from savage to human, from human to divine, that is to say, according to the heart of God. Millions of men are pleading for a change of course, as they look towards the Church of Christ as to the only strong pilot who, with all due respect for human liberty, can take the lead in so vast an undertaking. …

How could We, placed by God, despite Our unworthiness, as a torch in the darkness, as the salt of the earth, and as Shepherd of the Christian Flock, refuse to accept this saving mission? Just as, on a day now long passed, and because such was God’s will, We accepted the heavy cross of the Pontificate, so also do We now bow to the arduous duty of being, in so far as Our weak strength permits, the herald of a better world willed by God, and whose standard We yearn to pass on first of all to you, beloved children of Rome, to you who are nearest to Us, who are entrusted in a more special manner to Our care, and who by that very fact are also set up as flaming lights on a candelabra, as a leaven among your brethren, and a city built on a mountain—to you, from whom others rightfully expect greater courage and more generous readiness for action. Receive with a noble spirit of dedication, recognizing it as a call from God and as a worthy rule of life, the holy charge which your Shepherd and Father today entrusts to you: to launch a mighty re-awakening of thought and action.

This re-awakening is a duty for everyone without exception—clergy and people, those in authority, families, groups, individuals—along the entire front of the complete renewal of Christian life, along the line of the defense of moral values, in the realization of social justice, in the reconstruction of the Christian order, in such a way that the outward face of the city of Rome, which since the Apostolic times has been the center of the Church, may soon shine forth brilliant with holiness and beauty.

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This is not the moment to discuss, to search for new principles, to fix new aims and goals. Both the one and the other, already known and substantially verified, because taught by Christ Himself, clarified by the teachings of the Church down through the centuries, adapted to immediate circumstances by the late Supreme Pontiffs, await one thing only—concrete execution.

…Let those of good will be invited; let them offer themselves spontaneously. Let their law be that of unconditional fealty to the person of Jesus Christ and to His teachings. Let their offering of themselves be humble and obedient; let their labor enter as an active element into the great current which God shall set in motion and direct through His ministers.

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Thus Rome shall relive her century-old mission of spiritual teacher of peoples, not merely, as it was and is, by reason of the Chair of truth which God has established in her midst, but by the example of her people, once again fervent in faith, exemplary in morals, one in the fulfillment of religious and civil duties and, if it please the Lord, prosperous and happy. We sincerely hope that this mighty awakening, to which We today exhort you, fostered without delay and tenaciously executed according to the pattern marked out, which others can develop in detail, shall be immediately imitated in other dioceses, near and far, so that Our eyes shall see not only cities, but nations, continents, the entire human race return to Christ.

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(Pope Pius XII, Radio Message Dal Nostro Cuore, Feb. 10, 1952; translated as “To the Faithful of Rome”, The Catholic Mind, vol. 50, n. 1074 [June 1952], pp. 380-384; underlining added.)

That is the way to obtain a truly better world.

Let’s see how many of these singers, rappers, and other performers in the Vatican — especially the one in white — are interested in supporting that.