The Sacred Heart Devotion: A Catholic Treasure Co-opted by the Conciliar Sect — EWTN Promotes a Film That Ignores the Kingship of Christ
EWTN News portal reports on a new docudrama film, “Sacred Heart: His Reign Has No End,” directed by Steven and Sabrina Gunnell of KREA Film-Makers. The film, which reportedly sold nearly 1 million tickets in France and Europe, retells the apparitions of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque in 17th-century France. It features testimonies, accounts of Eucharistic miracles, historical analysis, and dramatic reenactments. The film is scheduled for U.S. theatrical release June 9–11 and June 14, 2026. The article includes an extensive interview with Steven Gunnell, who recounts his personal conversion story — from involvement in a French boy band, through depression and suicidal ideation, to a dramatic encounter with the Sacred Heart of Jesus in a chapel of St. Rita. Both filmmakers express the hope that viewers will leave cinemas “feeling full of love” and “burning about this love.” The article closes with references to U.S. “bishops” planning a consecration to the Sacred Heart. What is conspicuously absent from this entire presentation — and from the film itself, as far as the article reveals — is any mention of the Social Kingship of Christ, the duty of nations to publicly consecrate themselves to Christ the King, or the condemnation of the secularism and laicism that Pius XI identified as the root plague of modern society. The Sacred Heart devotion, stripped of its integral theological context and reduced to an emotional experience of personal consolation, becomes yet another instrument of the conciliar sect’s program of sentimentalized, depoliticized Catholicism.

