2004

When we found out that the blasphemous production, "Jesus Has Two Mommies" was playing in Portland Oregon on December 1, we knew immediately that we had to protest.

On Sunday, December 5, a group of more than 60 TFP supporters and friends, mostly fathers and sons, gathered for a falconry exhibition organized by the TFP’s Louisiana Director Thomas Drake.

When graphic designer Scott Ritcher was recently asked why he had made a blasphemous representation of the Sacred Heart with the face of former President Bill Clinton, he responded: “It was just one of those creative moments where you’re just like ‘Oh wouldn’t this be funny?’”

On November 5, 2004 the American TFP sent a letter to President Bush, congratulating him on his election victory. In this election, America's moral and cultural configuration was at stake and both sides in the Cultural War mobilized accordingly.

America Needs Fatima (ANF) has mailed its 2005 Fatima Calendar to 115,000 members across the nation. This year’s calendar features reflections of Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira  titled: “A Pilgrimage Within a Gaze.”

For a seminar focusing on the divisions inside the nation, the 2004 TFP National Conference was a scene of amazing unity. The Columbus weekend event brought together Catholics of like mind from across the nation for an intense and varied program. By the end of the conference, all seemed to be immersed in an unforgettable atmosphere of grace and counter-revolutionary camaraderie.

For those in need of special graces, one secure way to obtain them is the Miraculous Medal. As the name implies, devotees experience nothing short of miracles when they have recourse to this great treasure of the Church.

When the Supreme Court extended an injunction against the enforcement of the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), it also guaranteed the access by innocent children to on-line porn. Internet pornographers were handed a victory and the opportunity to corrupt American youth with no fines or consequences.

The entry of Poland into the European Union was supposed to have ushered in a new era of democracy, tolerance and freedom to the former Soviet Bloc nation. Gone forever was the totalitarian past of Communist regimes. Such hopes are now apparently premature.

On August 8, the St. Louis chapter of the America Needs Fatima campaign hosted an afternoon social.

For a TFP international summer conference discussing Christian civilization, Austria seemed an excellent site. Even better was the restored fourteenth-century Carthusian Charterhouse where the over 110 participants gathered. At the six-day event held on August 2-7, there was no lack of Christian civilization; it was a veritable immersion.

Viva Cristo Rey (Long Live Christ the King) was the motto for this year’s Call to Chivalry Summer Camp for boys held at the Feliciana Retreat Center in Norwood, La. from June 29 - July 9.

The distribution of 130,000 free copies of a beautiful novena to Saint Joseph was the first step of a mission that aims to spread free copies to American families.

On May 16, TFP members rallied with over 100 people in Hanover, Pennsylvania’s Wirt Park to save a park monument of the Ten Commandments.

The TFP had gone to George Washington University in Washington, D.C. to defend traditional marriage as part of a continuing effort on college campuses. Within minutes of their arrival, homosexual activists started gathering to antagonize TFP volunteers and make vain attempts to justify the unjustifiable: homosexual vice.

On April 17, nearly 300 people gathered at the national headquarters of the American TFP to venerate the International Pilgrim Virgin of Our Lady of Fatima.

On March 20, two members of the American TFP, went on pilgrimage to the site of the 1917 apparitions of Our Lady in Fatima, Portugal, to deliver over 40,000 petition cards collected through the TFP’s America Needs Fatima Home Visitation Program.

Amid our hectic busy world, the adoration chapel is like an oasis of peace where faithful Catholics can have recourse to Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament America Needs Fatima has a new adoration booklet for use in these chapels.

The debate over the chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee still rages. In one development, Planned Parenthood is asking its activists to thank Senator Arlen Specter (R. Penn.) for his “moderate” stance on abortion. In light of this continuing debate, The American TFP opposes his nomination.

Feminists on 34 American Catholic Universities are planning a new Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre, aimed at the Church’s traditional moral teaching, by organizing showings of the infamous lewd play, The V***** Monologues in the weeks surrounding Saint Valentine’s Day.

After one of its best year ever, America Needs Fatima is sending out over 150,000 membership packages in 2004.

A group of boys received a special Christmas present from their parents last year:participation in a Winter Youth Program, sponsored by the American TFP and St. Louis de Montfort Academy. Boys came from as far as California to attend the five-day program at the Academy’s rural campus in Herndon, Pa.