The conciliar propaganda outlet EWTN News (Catholic News Agency) publishes a puff piece dated November 12, 2026, by Francesca Pollio Fenton, promoting the film “Jimmy” produced by Papaian Studios and Burns & Co. Actor Neal McDonough, portraying Alexander Stewart, extols the “transformative” World War II service of Jimmy Stewart, framing it as a model of “faith, sacrifice, and service” encapsulated in the slogan “God first and country first”. The article highlights a father slipping Psalm 91 into his son’s pocket, children drawing crosses on shoes and pitcher’s mounds, and McDonough invoking John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address — “Ask not what your country can do for you” — as a call to national service. The piece concludes with a sentimental appeal to “build up heroes again” against the selfishness of social media. This article exposes the thoroughgoing Americanist naturalism of the conciliar sect, substituting the Social Kingship of Christ the King with a Masonic-inspired civil religion where the State usurps the rights of God.
The Americanist Heresy: Equating God and Country
The central slogan “God first and country first” is a quintessential expression of the heresy of Americanism, condemned by Leo XIII in Testem Benevolentiae Nostrae (1899). The phrase places the temporal polity on a coordinate plane with the Divine Majesty, implying a dual loyalty that divides the heart. Quas Primas teaches with absolute clarity: “His reign encompasses not only Catholic nations… but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ” (Pius XI, Quas Primas, citing Leo XIII). There is no “country first” alongside God; there is only the Regnum Christi to which every civil society must be subordinated. The article’s framework assumes the legitimacy of the secular State as an autonomous moral agent — a direct contradiction of the Syllabus of Errors, which condemns the proposition: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55, Pius IX). McDonough’s “God and country” is the creed of the Civitas Diaboli masquerading as piety.
Silence on the Supernatural Order: A Naturalistic Gospel
Nowhere in the EWTN report — nor apparently in the film — is there mention of the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary, the necessity of sanctifying grace, the Sacraments, the Virgin Mary, or the Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus doctrine. The “faith” presented is reduced to a talismanic use of Scripture (Psalm 91 as a charm for bomber missions) and vague moralistic theism. This is the heresy of Naturalism anathematized by the Vatican Council (1870) and St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu: “The science of philosophical things and morals and also civil laws may and ought to keep aloof from divine and ecclesiastical authority” (Syllabus, Error 57). The article’s “heroes” are not saints formed by grace but rugged individualists formed by “sacrifice” and “service.” Quas Primas warns: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed”. The film offers a Christless patriotism, a “salvation” by works of civic virtue, which is the very definition of Pelagianism.
JFK and the Masonic Ideal of Service
McDonough’s invocation of John F. Kennedy — “Ask not what your country can do for you” — is a scandalous endorsement of a man who publicly swore to uphold the separation of Church and State, effectively denying the Social Kingship of Christ. Kennedy’s “service” was the service of the Novus Ordo Seclorum, the Masonic new order of the ages. The Syllabus condemns the proposition: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). By holding up JFK as a model of virtue, the conciliar media sanctions the Masonic principle that the State is the supreme arbiter of the common good, independent of Revelation. This is not the “heroism” of the martyrs who confessed Christus Rex before tyrants; it is the heroism of the citizen-soldier of the secular republic, dying for an abstraction called “country” while the rights of the true King are trampled.
Pelagian Self-Help Replaces Divine Grace
The article’s anthropology is purely Pelagian: “You can stand up for what is right by being the best version of yourself for God and for your country”. This is the language of the modernist “cult of man” denounced by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis. There is no mention of Original Sin, the necessity of Baptism, the life of grace, or the Cross. The “cross” drawn in the dirt by a baseball pitcher is stripped of its soteriological meaning and reduced to a superstitious ritual for athletic performance. The father passing down Psalm 91 is presented as a transmission of “values,” not the deposit of Faith. Lamentabili condemns the Modernist error: “Faith, as assent of the mind, is ultimately based on a sum of probabilities” (Prop. 25) and “The dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function, i.e., as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief” (Prop. 26). The film and the article perfectly embody this pragmatic reduction of dogma to therapeutic moralism.
The Conciliar Sect’s Propaganda: Cinema as Catechism
That EWTN News — the flagship media of the “neo-church” — promotes this film as a catechetical tool reveals the true nature of the conciliar apostolate. It is not the salvation of souls they seek, but the manufacturing of consent for the Civitas Terrena. The article admits the film premiered in Fort Worth, Texas, a bastion of Americanist “Catholicism.” The “heroes” needed today, according to McDonough, are not the confessors of the Faith who resist the abomination of desolation in the Vatican, but those who “work a little bit harder” and “care more about what’s the right thing for the United States of America.” This is the spiritual bankruptcy of a structure that has replaced the Missio Dei with the Missio Americana. As Pius XI declared: “Peace is only possible in the Kingdom of Christ” (Quas Primas). The “peace” and “service” offered by “Jimmy” and its promoters are the peace of the world, which Non est sicut mundus dat (John 14:27).
Source:
‘God first and country first’: Neal McDonough hopes film inspires new generation to serve (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 12.11.2026