Acting as Divine: The Sacrilegious Humanization of Christ in Modern Media
Catholic News Agency (December 29, 2025) reports on actor Jonathan Roumie’s interview with “Fr.” Mike Schmitz regarding his portrayal of Jesus in the Protestant-funded series The Chosen. Roumie claims his childhood experiences—including self-crucifixion reenactments and bullying—“prepared me for this role” of Christ. He details filming Christ’s Passion while offering his “past trauma” to God, alleging a mystical connection to Christ’s suffering. The article applauds his recent adoption of kneeling for Communion despite resistance from “priests.”
Humanization of the Divine: Replacing Theology With Emotional Narcissism
Roumie’s assertion that childhood bullying equips him to portray the God-Man reduces the Hypostatic Union to therapeutic psychodrama. Quas primas (Pius XI, 1925) declares Christ’s kingship founded “not by force but by essence and nature”, yet Roumie reduces Him to an “empathetic human being” whose divinity is incidental. The series’ focus on Christ’s alleged emotional vulnerability directly opposes the Council of Chalcedon’s definition of Christ’s perfect divinity inseparably united to His humanity.
Schmitz’s failure to correct this—instead praising Roumie as “chosen to be his disciple”—exposes the conciliar sect’s abandonment of dogmatic rigor. The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864) condemns such relativism: “Divine revelation is imperfect, and therefore subject to a continual and indefinite progress” (Error 5). By permitting an actor to equate personal trauma with redemptive suffering, Schmitz elevates subjective experience above the ex opere operato efficacy of Calvary’s sacrifice.
Sacrilegious Simulation: When “Reverence” Masks Apostasy
Roumie’s claim of receiving Communion “on the tongue while kneeling” is paraded as piety, yet occurs within structures that deny the Mass’s propitiatory nature. The False Fatima Apparitions document warns that modernist “reverence” often disguises theological corruption: “The efficacy of Holy Mass is diminished in favor of spectacular acts.” His theatrical imitation of Christ’s Passion—complete with self-inflicted wounds and emotional exhibitionism—parallels the condemned “hyper-acts” of false mysticism.
“I asked God in prayer that if it were his will to allow me a fraction of a fraction of what he went through.”
This statement blasphemously implies human participation in Christ’s unique atoning sacrifice—a heresy condemned by Trent (Session XXII). The Lamentabili sane (1907) anathematizes such modernist reductionism: “The Resurrection of the Savior is not properly a historical fact, but belongs to the purely supernatural order” (Error 36). By treating the Crucifixion as an acting exercise, Roumie profanes the unrepeatable sacrifice made present in the True Mass.
Ecumenical Betrayal: A Protestant Christ for Apostate Times
The Chosen—created by Mormon-affiliated Evangelicals—embodies the religious indifferentism Pius XI condemned as “utterly alien to Christ’s Church” (Mortalium animos). Schmitz’s endorsement signals the conciliar sect’ capitulation to pan-Christian syncretism. The Syllabus rejects the idea that “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” (Error 18), yet CNA promotes this series uncritically.
Roumie’s statement that portraying Jesus “keeps me connected to him” post-series reveals a sacramental theology reduced to emotional sentiment—precisely the “cult of man” denounced in Pascendi (Pius X, 1907). When “clergy” like Schmitz encourage such idolatry of artistic representation, they fulfill the False Fatima analysis of modernism’s goal: “divert attention from the main danger: apostasy within the Church.”
Conclusion: When Actors Replace the Altar
This interview epitomizes the conciliar sect’s replacement of supernatural faith with naturalistic performance. Roumie’s decade-long impersonation of Christ—far from evangelizing—obscures the Real Presence behind emotional spectacle. As Quas primas teaches, Christ reigns not through dramatized suffering but through His “threefold authority” as Priest, King, and Lawgiver. By applauding a Protestant project that humanizes the Divine, CNA and its quoted “clergy” deny the very Kingship they pretend to honor.
Source:
Jonathan Roumie tells Father Mike Schmitz: ‘Everything in my life has prepared me for this role’ (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 29.12.2025