Andrea Grillo is such a detestable character. But, unfortunately, we are forced to return often to covering him because of the outsized influence he was given by the late Francis. As Rorate mentioned in the earlier words about this matter,
The detestable Italian professor was introduced by some malevolent Vatican spirit to Francis and created the document that would later be signed by the late pope as "Traditionis custodes", whose aim is explicitly to destroy the Traditional Latin Mass in the long term.
Last month, we covered the first consequences of his tirades against the (now newly canonized) Carlo Acutis, when his own university disowned him.
There are criticisms to be made of the Acutis canonization, but mostly regarding (as often in recent decades) an accelerated procedure, not the person himself. By all accounts, Acutis was really a fine boy who, despite growing up in a secularized, barely nominally Catholic, family, was saved by a supernatural love for the Blessed Sacrament.
And yet it is Acutis's love for Sacramental Christ that is the fulcrum of Grillo's hatred for him and his canonization. And it reveals a lot about the spirit behind Traditionis Custodes, and why it is such a malevolent, erroneous, perverted, and perverse document.
In his latest Facebook texts about Acutis, Grillo can simply not contain his hatred for the Eucharist. First, Grillo published this tirade against what is, by all appearances, a saintly text firmly based on traditional Catholic doctrine on the Blessed Sacrament:
An embarrassing document
Carlo and his kit to become a Saint
To help the children he teaches catechism, he formulates his "kit to become saints":
1) You need to want it [the Blessed Sacrament] with all your heart, and, if you don't desire it yet, you must ask the Lord for it insistently.
2) Try to go to Holy Mass every day and receive Holy Communion.
3) Remember to pray the Holy Rosary every day.
4) Read a portion of the Holy Scriptures every day.
5) If you can, do a few moments of Eucharistic Adoration in front of the Tabernacle where Jesus is Really present, so that you will see how He will wonderfully increase your level of holiness.
7) If you are able to, confess every week even venial sins.
8) Make frequent resolutions and declarations to the Lord and Virgin Mary to help others.
9) Constantly ask for help from your Guardian Angel, who has to become your best friend.
Then, this, the first of many posts ridiculing the official Acutis website for a webcam that simply points towards the body of the canonized boy in Assisi, and calling a normal practice "obscene" (Grillo's words):
THE INTOLERABLE
From tomorrow, September 7th, the canonization of Carlo Acutis will be formalized.
This fact comes with new responsibilities. It will be necessary for the church authority to formally ask the official website carloacutis.com to remove from the platform the possibility of connecting with the webcam aimed at the saint's body. An obscene [sic] element is incompatible with canonization. Any negligence about this should be considered intolerable. The Internet's patron saint cannot become a victim of Internet abuse.
He repeated this in more recent posts.
The fact that Grillo, the worst enemy of the Traditional Latin Mass and architect of Traditionis Custodes, hates so much all about the simple faith of Acutis is a great sign for those of us who love Tradition to cherish his memory.
We hope the Roman Curia, and His Holiness Pope Leo XIV above all, see in Grillo's words that both the letter and the spirit of Traditionis Custodes must be destroyed forever. They can even proceed in such a way that saves face regarding Francis by making clear how he was "misinformed" by people such as Grillo... Whatever is needed to end the illegitimate document and its cruelty.
