Swiss State Ends Clergy Exemptions: Conciliar Hierarchy’s Capitulation to Laicism
The Pillar, a portal of the conciliar establishment, reports that the Swiss Confederation has abolished the centuries-old exemption from mandatory military service for clergy, effective June 1, 2026. The Federal Council justifies this by declaring the ministry of priests no longer “essential in modern society,” citing advancing secularization—34% of the population now claims no religious affiliation, up from 1-2% fifty years ago. The auxiliary “bishop” of Lugano, Alain de Raemy, objects not on supernatural grounds but by appealing to the Covid pandemic as proof of the “need for spiritual care during times of uncertainty.” Nine conciliar “priests” have already been summoned. This capitulation of the Swiss “hierarchy” to the secularist state lays bare the utter bankruptcy of the post-conciliar church: having surrendered the regnum Christi to the regnum Saeculi, it now reaps the whirlwind of its own apostasy.