Everyone in the world can have their own opinion about what speaks to them or what does not. I am allowed to have my own opinion of things. I will not follow the crowd. Just because Fr Z , Ann Barnhardt and Taylor Marshall (who thinks the ANGEL is Mary!!) don't like the nativity, does not mean that I have to not like it too. (The pieces on either side of the angel are too far from the figure. They are the angel's wings but the effect of wings is lost since they are not placed close enough to the figure. See the photo below of the wings correctly placed.)
Because I like the Vatican's nativity am I less Catholic? A degenerate person? Bad to the bone? Shall we all cancel Grandma Moses because she wasn't a Renaissance painter? Toss Van Gogh's paintings out the window? Change Williamsburg's Folk Art Museum to a museum containing famous American painters whose work more resembles acceptable societal images than simple folk art?
Maybe I just appreciate art (I was an art major for the first two years of university, one of those years in Venice, Italy at the Accademia) - all art, including modern art, folk art, ancient art, European art, Asian art, African art, and most of all, the beautiful artwork my children made when they were small, like the "Turtles with Cupcakes on Their Head" and the "Zebra Standing on an Anthill" which I framed.
