The Devil hates the Catholic priesthood Because priests are millions of other Christs in the world. Because priests are a constant, living reminder of his own final defeat. Because their celibacy gives them a power that he does not understand. Because they are the only ones who can offer 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. ...

The Devil hates Latin for many reasons: Because it is orderly Because it is continuity with the past Because it is the official language of the Catholic Church 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. ...

No salvation outside the Church. This dogma of the faith was defined early in the 14th century by Pope Boniface VIII. What it doesn’t mean: This dogma does not mean that only Catholics go to heaven, nor does it mean that all Catholics go to heaven. What it does mean: The Catholic Church is the sole and the universal sacrament of salvation. Eternal life comes to no human soul by any means other than the Catholic Church: by no other religion, no other Christian church or denomination, no other belief system, no other effort or practice. When he founded his Church, Jesus Christ established her as the sole means by which grace, without which no one reaches heaven, enters the world. Any human soul that reaches heaven does so by the ministry of this Church. Full communion with this Church is the ordinary and surest means to reach heaven, because this Church is his bride, and heaven is union with him, the Bridegroom. ...

In his letter to the Romans, less than 75 years after the death of Christ, St. Ignatius of Antioch makes clear the right relationship between the followers of Christ and the world. Our task, he says, is not to produce “persuasive propaganda” to convince those around us that Christianity leads to a flashy life of prosperity and prestige. Christianity leads to the cross; it leads Christians to the cross, which in the eyes of the world is, as St. Paul says, a scandal and an absurdity. If we are united with Christ on his cross, then we ourselves become a scandal and an absurdity. Thus, “Christianity shows its greatness when it is hated by the world,” because when he is hated by the world, the Christian is most like his Savior. ...

In the Gospel According to Matthew (16:18), Our Lord says he will build his Church on Peter; therefore, any church separated from Peter or his successor is not part of Christ’s Church. We can wear blinders, make excuses, and multiply interpretations, but the bare fact of the matter remains: ET SUPER HANC PETRAM AEDIFICABO ECCLESIAM MEAM. This message is part of The Trad Store’s Catholic series, which unequivocally proclaims the Catholic Church as the one true religion. ...

Irrespective of its relative benefits, we must never forget that its name is a lie: Artificial, yes; Intelligence, no. Not even close. And because its very name is a lie, everything about it is suspect; therefore, to let it into our lives, to use it, without the strictest guidelines and soundest, shrewdest skepticism is to begin to succumb to the lie. No doubt that its processing power is staggering and the breadth of its resources untold, but these are the very qualities that prove its UNintelligence. In a very real sense, it has no need to be intelligent, because it can tap and then process the entire fund of human knowledge in a moment. These are not the grounds for intelligence. The path to intelligence begins not with knowing, but with not knowing—not with fullness, but with emptiness. This is because intelligence is the capacity for originality. ...

“Unless you eat the fless of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you shall have no life within you.” It’s not a suggestion, and it’s not a metaphor. Not a parable. Not hyperbole. Not a symbol. Our Lord is clear and in earnest: “Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you shall have no life within you.” He is so in earnest on this point, in fact, that he is willing to lose every one of his followers. And he does lose every one of them, except the Twelve. They too were shaken by this mandate (some scholars posit that this moment was the final straw for Judas), but under the steadiness of Peter’s leadership, they stayed. ...

It’s not a suggestion, and it’s not a metaphor. Not a parable. Not hyperbole. Not a symbol. Our Lord is clear and in earnest: “Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you shall have no life within you.” He is so in earnest on this point, in fact, that he is willing to lose every one of his followers. And he does lose every one of them, except the Twelve. They too were shaken by this mandate (some scholars posit that this moment was the final straw for Judas), but under the steadiness of Peter’s leadership, they stayed. ...

They all have, as their ultimate goal, their ultimate target, the destruction of the Catholic Church. This is not to say, of course, that every Communist, every Mason, and every Muslim seek to destroy the Catholic Church. But as institutions, all three were founded—each in its own time and place—to oppose the Catholic Church and to work toward her total destruction, by means both open and insidious. This fact is largely lost today, so dominated by secularism, which downplays, ignores, and even denies the spiritual warfare at the heart of history and of all human activity. But the simple fact remains: the reason that these three institutions exist is to take down the Catholic Church. With untold malice, subversion, and outright war, they have worked toward this end. And they have not won. ...

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