Catholic News Agency portal (December 6, 2025) reports that actor Chris Pratt is producing a documentary about the Vatican Necropolis with Vatican Media and the Fabric of St. Peter, scheduled for release during the 400th anniversary of St. Peter’s Basilica in 2026. The film purports to explore the tomb of St. Peter through “stories of faith, history, and archaeology,” featuring Pratt’s narration despite his non-Catholic status. The article references “Pope Leo” (Bergoglio’s antipapal title) and uncritically repeats the conciliar sect’s claims about St. Peter’s relics – including their 2013 exhibition by antipope Bergoglio. This collaboration exemplifies the neo-church’s sacrilegious alliance with worldly entertainment to propagate archaeological modernism while obscuring doctrinal truths.
Conciliar Sect’s Sacrilegious Theatrics Replace Sacred Tradition
The very notion of entrusting the narration of a documentary about the Prince of Apostles to a Hollywood actor – whose theological formation is limited to Hallow app promotions – demonstrates the conciliar sect’s utter contempt for sacra doctrina. Pratt’s statement that this project involves “partner[ing] with Pope Leo” constitutes blasphemous recognition of Bergoglio’s false authority, directly violating the condemnation of antipopes in Cum ex Apostolatus Officio (1559): “If any one… prior to his promotion or his elevation as a Roman Pontiff, has deviated from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy, his promotion or elevation shall be null, void and worthless.” By treating Bergoglio as a legitimate pontiff, the documentary intrinsically participates in apostasy.
Archaeological Modernism as Tool Against Dogmatic Certainty
Through historical evidence and archaeological discoveries, viewers… are invited to discover St. Peter’s burial place in the Vatican Necropolis, which was officially announced by Pope Pius XII in 1950.
This framing reduces the Church’s unbroken tradition regarding St. Peter’s martyrdom and burial to mere conjecture requiring archaeological validation. As Pius XII’s 1950 announcement itself warned, the excavations provided only “probable arguments” about the relics – a caution ignored by both the article and the documentary’s premise. The true Church has always affirmed St. Peter’s Roman martyrdom through oral tradition and magisterial authority, not dirt-covered fragments (Tertullian, Prescription Against Heretics, 32). By elevating archaeology over Tradition, the production follows the modernist playbook condemned in Pius X’s Lamentabili (1907): “The dogmas which the Church proposes as revealed are not truths fallen from heaven… but an interpretation of religious facts which the human mind has laboriously discerned” (Proposition 22).
Profanation of Sacred Relics for Ecumenical Theater
The article’s reference to antipope Bergoglio’s 2013 display of St. Peter’s relics reveals the conciliar sect’s twisted sacramental theology. True Catholic practice reserves relic veneration for authentic sacred contexts – not open-air spectacles designed for media coverage. This profanation follows the Vatican II playbook of desacralization, reducing holy objects to museum exhibits. Contrast this with the 1962 Code of Rubrics mandating relics be “kept in a worthy reliquary… and exposed for public veneration only with ecclesiastical permission” (n. 346) – safeguards obliterated by neo-modernist exhibitionism.
Naturalization of Apostate Structures Through Celebrity Endorsement
Pratt’s involvement – a non-Catholic promoting Catholic relics – embodies the conciliar sect’s ecumenical dissolution of boundaries. The article notes he and his wife attend “Mass” (actually invalid Novus Ordo ceremonies) while ignoring that participation in counterfeit worship constitutes material heresy (Council of Trent, Session 22, Canon 8). This normalization of indifferentism directly attacks Pius IX’s Syllabus condemnation: “Good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ” (Proposition 17). By featuring Pratt, the documentary implicitly endorses the heresy that non-Catholics can authentically mediate Catholic truths.
Omission of Supernatural Realities Exposes Materialist Agenda
Throughout the article and documentary premise, all references to St. Peter focus on bones and dirt while ignoring his living reality as foundation of the Church (Matthew 16:18). This reduction of the apostolic office to archaeological rubble denies Christ’s promise of perpetual ecclesial authority. Nowhere does the project mention St. Peter’s ongoing spiritual guardianship or the necessity of submission to his legitimate successors (i.e., pre-1958 popes). Such silence constitutes implicit denial of the Church’s supernatural constitution – precisely the naturalism condemned in Pius XI’s Quas Primas: “When once men recognize… that Christ has been given all power in heaven and on earth… it will be possible for them to enjoy peace” (n. 18).
The documentary represents not merely historical negligence, but active subversion of Catholic ecclesiology. By partnering with apostate structures and worldly celebrities to “reinterpret” sacred tradition, it advances the conciliar sect’s ultimate goal: replacing the ecclesia militans with a humanitarian NGO fixated on earthly artifacts rather than eternal truths.
Source:
Christ Pratt to release documentary on tomb of St. Peter (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 06.12.2025