Have the “gates of Hell” prevailed over the Catholic Church?

by Joseph Saraceno

December 31, 2015 – St. Silvester, Pope & Confessor – Seventh Day of Christmas Double Feast
A Reader Asks: “Have the ‘Gates of Hell’ Prevailed Over the Catholic Church?”

GATESGates of Hell
La Porte d’Enfer (“The Gate of Hell”) As Sculpted by the French Artist Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Christ said that the “Gates of Hell” would not prevail over His Church – But Christ never said that His Church would be large – In fact He suggested just the opposite. There Remain Many (Traditional) Catholic Priests and Bishops sll around the world

Dear TRADITIO Fathers:

Have the “gates of Hell” prevailed over the Catholic Church? After all, the papacy has been taken over by Satanic forces. The papal seat is vacant in the sense that an imposter and modernist sits in that chair doing the bidding of Satan. So in this sense, can we say that Hell has prevailed?

The TRADITIO Fathers Reply.

It is dogma that the “gates of Hell” — the phrase used St. Matthew’s Gospel (16:18) — cannot prevail over the Church that Christ established. That having been said, Christ’s Church certainly cannot the anti-Catholic New Order sect, of course, any more than it can be the Protestant sects that it apes. There remain many (traditional) Catholic priests and bishops all around the world having no connection with the New Order sect, the Protestant sects, nor, for that matter, with the Jewish synagogue or the Mohammedan mosque. But, remember, Christ never said that his Church would be large. In fact, He suggested just the opposite (Luke 18:8).

Far too much emphasis is now being placed on the person of the pope (whoever he may or may not be). This perversion of Catholic teaching is likely an offshoot of the personality cults of the late 20th and 21st centuries. Most Catholics in the early 20th century didn’t even know the name of the pope. The Catholic candidate for United States President in 1932 against Franklin Roosevelt, New York governor Al Smith, when asked whether he agreed with the pope’s latest encyclical, answered, “What’s an encyclical?”

There is no reason why any lay Catholic essentially needs to know the name of the pope because no pope has any authority whatsoever to change Sacred Scripture or Tradition, dogma, morals, the Mass or the Sacraments. This is the clear dogma of the Church, as defined at the First Vatican Council (Constitutio Dogmatica Prima de Ecclesia Christi, “Pastor Aeternus,” cap. 4, “De Romani Pontificis Infallibili Magisterio,” July 18, 1870):

Neque enim Petri successoribus Spiritus sanctus promissus est, ut eo revelante novam doctrinam patefacerent, sed ut eo assistente traditam per apostolos revelationem seu fidei depositum sancte custodirent et fideliter exponerent.
[For the Holy Ghost was promised to the successors of Peter not so that they might, by His revelation, make known some new doctrine, but that, by His assistance, they might religiously guard and faithfully expound the revelation or Deposit of Faith transmitted by the Apostles.]

That dogma may surprise many who think themselves Catholic because they worship a pope, but in their error they in fact make the pope into a cult figure, holding press conferences and issuing press statements like an Obama or gallivanting all over the world like a James Michelin. They probably don’t know either that Christ called His nominee for first pope “Satan,” saying to Peter just after the more famous “Thou art Peter…” statement: “Go behind me, Satan, thou art a scandal unto me: because thou savourest not the things that are of God, but the things that are of men” (Matthew 10:23/DRV). Christ’s devastating criticism of the first pope is even more apropos to the Newpopes of today!

What the Traditio and other Traditional Fathers won’t admit to is that Paul VI became the first in the Reign of AntiChrists of the Scriptures.