The Anselmianum Distances Itself From Its Own Professor, Andrea Grillo

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The Anselmianum Distances Itself From Its Own Professor, Andrea Grillo

gloria.tv | June 25, 2025

The Pontifical University Atheneum of Saint Anselm in Rome has distanced itself from Andrea Grillo, a layman and professor of sacramental theology at the university.

Grillo is believed to have played a key role in drafting Francis' document Traditionis Custodes.

On June 17, Grillo wrote on CittaDellaEditrice.com an article mocking Carlo Acutis for his veneration of the Blessed Sacrament: "Should this form of grave Eucharistic miseducation perhaps become, through Carlo who was its first victim, a model to propose to all young people? Are we seriously joking?"

On 23 June, Pro-Rector Father Laurentius Eschlböck OSB wrote on Anselmianum.com:

"We resolutely distance ourselves from what is individually expressed by professors who, in their personal capacity and under their sole and full responsibility, publish on their sites or blogs, theses, opinions or personal positions."

These positions "do not represent what is taught in the various faculties of our Athenaeum, which welcomes and transmits, in full trust and obedience of faith - in the perspective of a healthy dialectic on which true theological research is based - the teaching of the Church and the Roman Pontiff."

Father Eschlböck did not mention Grillo by name. Thus, the ridiculing of the Eucharist at the institution will continue.


See also the following from Rorate Caeli: His Own University is Now Against Him: Andrea Grillo, Francis' Liturgist and the Father of Traditionis Custodes, Hates the Eucharist and Must Have His Imprint Erased