American Tradition, Family, Property: Fighting the Counter-Revolution

2005

Deus Vult!

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Light over the East

TFP_Volunteers_Travel_to_Lithuania_Spread_Fatima_MessageEvery August, the TFP-inspired association Luci sull’Est (Light over the East) sends a “caravan” of TFP volunteers to the Baltic nation of Lithuania, commemorating its hard-won independence from the Soviet Union and spreading the Fatima message.

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Students Defend Our Lord’s Honor at Ohio State, Irritate Liberals

Students Defend Our Lord’s Honor at Ohio State, Irritate LiberalsTFP Student Action has been campaigning on campuses to defend the honor due to Our Lord Jesus Christ, attacked in Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code.

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Add a Note of Seriousness to Your Year

Add a Note of Seriousness to Your YearThe 2006 America Needs Fatima Calendars are in, and this year’s theme is seriousness.

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DeGeneres Will Not Play God

Protesters can claim one more case where protesting has proven effective. The Hollywood remake of the comedy “Oh God!” will not be going anywhere soon.

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Habemus Papam!

With the election of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger as Benedict XVI, the American TFP sends a message of best wishes to the Holy Father.

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Free Distribution of The Way of the Cross booklet

During Lent, most Catholics today do not take time to reflect upon the sufferings and death of Our Lord Jesus Christ. America Needs Fatima has launched a bold new outreach program to spread free compact disc recordings of The Way of the Cross.

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Bringing Christ back into Christmas

Bringing Christ back into ChristmasOn December 18, over 250 local supporters and friends of the American TFP gathered at the group’s national headquarters in Spring Grove, Pennsylvania, for this year’s Christmas open house. The reality that Christ’s birth should be at the center of the holiday, was a consideration that greatly influenced this year’s celebration.

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Standing by the Cross in Nebraska

Standing by the Cross in NebraskaOn December 1, 2 and 3, faithful Catholics gathered in Lincoln, Nebr., to make a public act of reparation for this offense against God. Coming from as far as Kansas and Pennsylvania, they were determined to follow the example of Our Lady at the foot of the Cross.

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“She Protected Me on the Water”

“She Protected Me on the Water”On November 22, TFP supporter Sergio de Paz brought a pilgrim statue of Our Lady of Fatima to the home where child Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez spent four short months.

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Standing Up for Church Teaching

Standing Up for Church TeachingWhen TFP supporters in St. Louis heard that pro-homosexual activists would be gathering on the steps of the city’s Catholic Cathedral on November 7, they immediately thought of an act of reparation.

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Building Foundations in Education

Building Foundations in EducationStudents, teachers, scholars, officials and concerned citizens gathered for the Tenth Annual Foundations of Education Symposium at Topeka’s Washburn University on November 4 to discuss the importance of principles in education.

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Letter to the Bishops

Letter to the BishopsIn an attempt to urge the bishops’ pastoral leadership in the struggle to defend the family in America, representatives of the American TFP delivered eight boxes of signed petitions to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on November 1, 2005.

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Moral Chaos at the University of Notre Dame

Moral Chaos at the University of Notre DameDuring the week of October 10-14, students at the prominent Catholic University of Notre Dame faced another assault against traditional Catholic morality on campus: "National Coming Out Day."

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2005 TFP Conference: Facing America’s Culture War

2005 TFP Conference: Facing America’s Culture WarThe 2005 TFP National Conference was more than just a simple gathering. The Columbus Day weekend event doubled as an occasion to launch the American TFP’s new book, Rejecting The Da Vinci Code. In addition, participants were invited to pay a special tribute to Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira on the tenth anniversary of his death.

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Louisiana Families Suffer, “Southern Decadence” Celebrates, TFP Protests

Four dozen Catholic souls made an act of reparation before a statue of Our Lady of the Assumption, Patroness of the Acadians, outside Lafayette, Louisiana’s Catholic Cathedral while two dozen revelers “paraded” in the streets in disrespect to a climate of mourning for hurricane victims.

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Getting Together in Kansas

Over 200 Kansan supporters of the American TFP and America Needs Fatima had an enjoyable day of activities and Catholic devotion for the entire family at their annual picnic on Saturday, September 17, at a farm near Topeka.

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In the Trenches in Topeka

Several plays commissioned to support nudism are scheduled to be performed at the city-owned Hussey Playhouse from Sept. 24 to Oct. 1. Tragically, even innocent children are invited to attend with their parents.

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New Meditation Booklet for ANF Members

America Needs Fatima is distributing copies of My One Hour Meditation booklet, written by Professor Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira.

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Courage, Stability and a Call to Chivalry in Pennsylvania

The second of the American TFP’s National Call to Chivalry Camp for boys was held at the TFP-staffed St. Louis de Montfort Academy in rural Herndon, Pennsylvania, from August 11-20.

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New Crusade of Reparation to the Sacred Heart

In face of so many sins and offenses, America Needs Fatima has started a bold new effort to enthrone pictures of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and spread free First Friday prayer cards. The effort which is now fully underway hopes to reach hundreds of thousands of homes before the end of the year.

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Having One's Cake and Eating it Too

On July 29, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist officially endorsed federal funding for embryonic stem cell (ESC) research. The American TFP is asking its email subscribers to protest.

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A Catholic Response to a Cultural Revolution

If there is a place to discuss the cultural crisis in Western civilization, the restored fourteenth-century Carthusian Charterhouse in Gaming, Austria is certainly the setting. From its austere origins, the monastery has weathered a number of cultural crises – the Renaissance, the pseudo-Reformation, the Enlightenment, communist occupation and the present modern cultural assault.

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Catholic Poland Resists the Homosexual Movement's Offensive

With its entry into the European Union, Poland has suffered enormous pressure to accept same-sex “marriage” and the whole homosexual agenda. Unlike other nations. Mr. Slawomir Olejniczak of the TFP-inspired Fr. Peter Skarga Association for Christian Culture in Krakow has provided the TFP web site with an account of the great cultural battle developing there.

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At a Call to Chivalry Camp: "The Most Beautiful Adventure is Ours"

Perhaps the most amazing thing about the TFP’s Call to Chivalry Summer Camps is the participants’ enthusiastic response to an event which issues such a frontal challenge to today’s popular culture.

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Getting Together for Our Lady in Pennsylvania

As part of this effort to reach out, America Needs Fatima Custodian Jose Walter Ferraz held a festive barbecue on July 10 at his home in Drums, Penn. In attendance were around 150 people.

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Around Scotland for Our Lady

Until recently, it would have been rash to travel around staunchly Presbyterian Scotland handing out fliers about Our Lady. However, times have changed and we spent three weeks in June doing just that.

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High Stakes in the Evolution Debate

Mr. John Calvert warns that the evolution issue is going to snowball into a monumental national debate. Kansas is currently becoming the center of this debate.

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Walking in the Footsteps of Blessed Jacinta and Francisco

Mr. Whitcraft pointed out that the twentieth century was very similar to Pickett's Charge. Due to the tremendous moral and spiritual crises of the twentieth century, there have been many casualties.

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TFP Sends Best Wishes to the Newly Elected Pope Benedict XVI

With the election of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger as Benedict XVI, the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) sends a message of best wishes to the Holy Father taking heart in his earlier sermon where he spoke against the “dictatorship of relativism.”

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TFP Student Action Hosts Weekend Event

TFP Student Action Hosts Weekend Event With the school year back in full swing, TFP Student Action organized an informal weekend event, from November 3-5 for around ten of its closer student friends.

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During the Conclave: TFP Sends a Filial Supplication to the Unknown Pope

Even before the name of the new Pope is known, the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property and the undersigned sister organizations wish hereby to address him in supplication.

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On the Front Lines with Terri

It is hard to sort out the impressions from the police barricades at Woodside Hospice in Pinellas Park, Florida. Inside the building, Terri Schiavo is slowly and painfully dying. Outside there is a continuous flow of people from all over the country holding vigil.

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TFP Registers Indignant Protest

In face of the starvation death of Terri Schiavo, the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) has registered its “indignant protest and heartfelt mourning” at the shameful and incomprehensible Schiavo tragedy.

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Speaking on the Renaissance

TFP speaker Byron Whitcraft treated Kansas friends and supporters to a presentation titled, "Was the Renaissance a Rebirth or Regression?" The March 11-13 speaking tour included talks in Topeka and Wichita.

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Teaching Manners at a Formal Tea

For TFP supporters and friends in Kansas, drinking tea became a learning experience.The program consists of several presentations.

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A Plea for Terri!

The case of Terri Schiavo has been riveting public opinion for some time now. However, recent events have forced the issue into the foreground. Terri’s time may be running out.

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Another St. Valentine's Day "Massacre"

Feminists on thirty American Catholic universities are planning a new St. Valentine's Day "Massacre," where the Church's traditional moral teaching is the victim, by organizing showings of the lewd play, "The V***** Monologues" in the weeks surrounding St. Valentine's Day.

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Faithful Catholics Mobilize to Protest Play at St. Louis University

Faithful Catholics gathered outside of Tegeler Hall at St. Louis University on Friday February 11, 2005 to protest the vulgar and immoral play "The V***** Monologues" which was presented as part of the national 'V-Day' celebrations at universities across America.

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Petition to Save Terri Schiavo Goes to Campus

Student Action visited Gettysburg College today, collecting petitions urging Governor Jeb Bush to redouble his efforts to save Terri Schiavo from forced court-ordered starvation in Florida.

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Standing By The Cross in Nebraska

Standing By The Cross in NebraskaOn December 1, 2 and 3, faithful Catholics gathered in Lincoln, Nebr., to make a public act of reparation for this offense against God. Coming from as far as Kansas and Pennsylvania, they were determined to follow the example of Our Lady at the foot of the Cross.

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