It is time for straight talk about IVF: in-vitro fertilization kills more children than it saves. For every one child born through IVF, thousands are killed, frozen, and donated to research. This large-scale destruction of embryos makes IVF the greatest destroyer of newly-conceived life. Let us be clear: more babies are killed through IVF than through abortion. But there is a more fundamental reason why we can’t be both pro-life and pro-IVF, and it is this: every child has the right to be conceived according to the natural order—through the sexual intercourse of a married man and woman, his own parents—and to develop in the womb of his own mother. To rob a child of this right is to contravene God’s law and to engender disorder in the child’s life before he is even born. ...

The popular euphemism “Death with dignity” whitewashes but doesn’t alter the fact that it’s suicide. We must state plainly that, no matter the circumstances, there is no dignity in suicide. Suicide is always beneath a person’s dignity because it says, “I have no further part to play; I can no longer be a gift, no longer grow or receive God’s love. My suffering has exceeded Christ’s suffering.” The dignity of a man is measured by his likeness to Christ; when he rejects that likeness, he annuls his dignity. Thus, suicide is the most UN-dignifying act. ...

On 13 May 1917, her third apparition to the three shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal, Our Lady made this promise: “In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph.” Her maternal solicitude for every one of her adopted children is unflagging. This bumper sticker proudly displays the single greatest message of hope of the 20th century. This message is part of The Trad Store’s Blessed Virgin Mary series: a collection of messages that honor Our Lord’s first and best disciple. ...

Dare to proclaim your allegiance to this most precious and most powerful of devotions. And more, dare to imply that everyone around you should be devoted to it also. Every day. This message is part of The Trad Store’s Blessed Virgin Mary series: a collection of messages that honors Our Lord’s first and best disciple.

Show your love for the daily rosary and its primacy in your daily routine with this Marian bumper sticker. The rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary is origin and benchmark of discipleship; to recite it daily is to place ourselves at the feet of Our Lord’s first and truest disciple, and to learn from her the secrets of contemplation and of conformity to God’s will. This message is part of The Trad Store’s Blessed Virgin Mary series: a collection of messages that honors Our Lord’s first and best disciple. ...

This sticker features a twist on the popular “No Farms, No Food” bumper sticker of the American Farmland Trust. Its core message hinges on the unquestioned necessity of food. Without food we cannot survive; therefore, we need farms. In the spiritual realm there is a no less pressing syllogism: the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass–instituted by Jesus Christ to extend his salvific act across time and space–is as necessary to the eternal life of every soul, both on earth and in purgatory, as is food to their earthly life. Because only a priest of Jesus Christ can offer the Mass, and because eternal life is a higher good than earthly life, priests are more essential to humanity than farms. ...

The time is now. Postpone sacramental Confession no more. Unconfessed, unabsolved sin is a self-imposed burden, encumbering our lives and shutting us off from grace and virtue. The ocean of God’s mercy is available to all who approach with true contrition and a firm purpose of amendment. It is incumbent upon every Catholic to turn to this sacrament frequently, to fearlessly call back all those who have fallen away, and to pray daily, “From a sudden and unprovided death, deliver us, O Lord.” ...

“Every verse of the Psalms by itself is enough to raise us to an eminent degree of wisdom, to reform our ideas, and to obtain very great advantages for us. If we meditate attentively on each of the words of which they are composed, we will gather very abundant fruits from them.” – St. John Chrysostom The Book of Psalms contains untold treasures for the heart of man, because it is the prayerbook of Our Lord, who inspired his ancestor David to record in it not only his prayers but also the prayers of every human heart. Regular, repeated recitation of the psalms molds our hearts into the likeness of his and gives voice to everything our hearts have to say to the Father. ...

The Devil hates Gregorian chant for many reasons: Because it is beautiful Because it is orderly Because it is old. But that alone is not why he hates it, for he turns many old things to his advantage. He hates Gregorian chant because it is an unbroken tradition, a golden musical thread that begins before the Middle Ages, before St. Gregory the Great, before Herod’s Temple, before the exiles, before Solomon’s Temple, before King David, all the way back to that very first recorded song, “Cantemus Domino gloriose enim magnificatus est,” sung by the Israelites after the Lord led them through Red Sea. Because it is at the service of Sacred Scripture Because it is impeccably suited to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, which the Devil hates most of all This message is part of The Trad Store’s “The Devil hates…” series: if we know what the Devil hates, we know what we must love. ...