This story was originally published by the WND News Center.

Because of course Christmas is a holiday all about politics.

At least that's the messaging from one Massachusetts church that took Joseph, Mary and baby Jesus out of its annual Nativity display and replaced them with a sign stating, "ICE was here."

It is St. Susanna Catholic church in the Boston suburb of Dedham that delivered its statement on a political agenda.

A report at Fox explained Father Stephen Josoma, the pastor, claimed the messaging from the church's peace and justice group was to "try to see what would it be like if Christ was born into the context of the world today, what would he be facing?"

A rebuke was not long in coming.

C.J. Doyle, chief of the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts, said, "I think it's very offensive. [Josoma] is politicizing Christmas, he's exploiting and trivializing the Holy Family, and he's using his Catholic parish as a platform to promote his left-winged ideology."

Josoma said the agenda of the church's pro-immigration messaging was to "change people."

Fox reported, "Josoma has become known for making waves with his Nativity scenes over the last decade. He and the parish peace and justice group have made statements on mass shootings, global warming and immigration issues in previous years."

Back in 2018, the church placed a cage around baby Jesus in the Nativity, apparently to the enflame the dispute over the southern border crisis, which at that time was being addressed by President Donald Trump's border wall and more.

It was under the Barack Obama administration, actually, that border security forces started using wire-mesh cages to detain children.

Doyle charged, "This is a case of a dissident priest who has a long history of these kinds of 'crackpot' publicity stunts aimed at political activism. This has nothing to do with the birth of our Savior and everything to do with ventilating [Josoma's] own political projects."

Doyle said it actually is the archdiocese of Boston that should act.

"The archdiocese has tolerated this behavior in the past. They should tell him to stop, pure and simple."

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has said, "We pray for an end to dehumanizing rhetoric and violence, whether directed at immigrants or at law enforcement."

Fox noted other churches have gone political about Christmas, too, with Lake Street Church in Evanston, Ill., posting a scene that has baby Jesus' hands zip-tied and gas masks on Joseph and Mary, to create a scene "of forced family separation."