Msgr. Martin Grichting

SSPX excommunications would not solve the real problem facing the Church

The one check on absolute papal power is unconditional fidelity to Scripture and Tradition; once that boundary is crossed, schism becomes a natural consequence.

Opinion

Msgr. Martin Grichting

• May 22, 2026May 26, 2026

Swiss priest: There is a ‘horizontal schism’ between German bishops and their faithful

Heinrich Heine’s satire of 17th-century Jesuits mirrors today’s episcopate, where compromise with pagan culture undermines faith and morals, accelerating the collapse of both.

Opinion

Msgr. Martin Grichting

• Feb 11, 2026Feb 12, 2026

Bishops in Germany, Switzerland are supplanting Church teaching with secular ideals: priest

In Germany and in Zurich, the bishops have rendered the observance of the Sixth Commandment optional by exempting Church employees from living according to Catholic teaching.

Opinion

Msgr. Martin Grichting

• Dec 10, 2025

Swiss priest: Here’s the fatal flaw of ‘synodality’ in the Catholic Church

Synodal events at the global, national, diocesan, and parish levels are the catwalk for self-promoters, careerists, and ideologues within the Catholic Church.

Opinion

Msgr. Martin Grichting

• Aug 25, 2025

The history of US Catholicism proves synodality and ‘democracy’ are not the same

Trusteeism nearly tore American Catholicism apart. Rome rightly crushed it. So why are some trying to revive its spirit?

Opinion

Msgr. Martin Grichting

• Jun 6, 2025

Priest calls on Pope Leo XIV to remove female ‘prefect’ from Vatican dicastery leadership

By appointing a layperson as a 'prefect' of a dicastery, Pope Francis threw us back into times that the Church had overcome.

Opinion

Msgr. Martin Grichting

• May 16, 2025May 16, 2025

Swiss priest: JD Vance conversion story shows why Pope Francis’ synodal church fails to convert souls

The situation is grotesque: We are seeing an increasing number of people like JD Vance who see the Catholic Church and its witness to God as the last refuge. And we have Church leadership under Pope Francis that obscures this path through its actions.

Opinion

Msgr. Martin Grichting

• Jan 8, 2025Jan 8, 2025

Priest: Pope Francis broke canon law, Catholic teaching by naming woman as dicastery prefect

If Pope Francis still had a last shred of integrity, he would no longer be able to accuse anyone of disregarding Vatican II or breaking canon law. For he has done both himself on an important issue.

Opinion

Msgr. Martin Grichting

• Jan 8, 2025Jan 8, 2025

How should we continue after Traditionis Custodes?

This legal decree is an expression of fear, the fear that in free circumstances a form of liturgy could be preserved and even expanded in the younger generation (priests and laity)...As martial as the decree of law comes across, it is a sign of weakness.

Opinion

Msgr. Martin Grichting

• Jul 19, 2021Jul 30, 2021

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SSPX excommunications would not solve the real problem facing the Church

Swiss priest: There is a ‘horizontal schism’ between German bishops and their faithful

Bishops in Germany, Switzerland are supplanting Church teaching with secular ideals: priest

Swiss priest: Here’s the fatal flaw of ‘synodality’ in the Catholic Church

The history of US Catholicism proves synodality and ‘democracy’ are not the same

Priest calls on Pope Leo XIV to remove female ‘prefect’ from Vatican dicastery leadership

Swiss priest: JD Vance conversion story shows why Pope Francis’ synodal church fails to convert souls

Priest: Pope Francis broke canon law, Catholic teaching by naming woman as dicastery prefect

How should we continue after Traditionis Custodes?