2008

Setting the tone for Christmas, the American TFP invited its friends and supporters over for a Christmas openhouse.

After an 818 mile drive from Pennsylvania to Georgia, eleven TFP Student Action volunteers reached Fort Benning. The purpose of the trip was to honor the troops at God Bless Fort Benning Day. On the same weekend of November 22, my colleagues and I witnessed a disturbing leftist protest lead by the School of the Americas Watch.

The Austrian TFP recently launched a German edition of the book, Nobility and Analogous Traditional Elites at the historic Coburg Palace in Vienna.

On October 24-26, two hundred members, supporters and friends of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property gathered to commemorate the centennial of the birth of the TFP founder, Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira and discuss the projection of his thought into the future.

Atheist biology professor at the University of Minnesota, Paul Z. Myers, desecrated a consecrated Host and broadcasted the sacrilege on his blog on July 24.

Nearly 100 participants gathered for the TFP’s 2008 Eighth International Student Summer Conference (Université d’été) in Kleinheubach, Germany.

It sounded like a crowd at a stadium as the cheering filtered through the Louisiana woods. It was not, however, a normal sporting event. Rather it was the closing “medieval games” at a Call to Chivalry camp where two teams of boys were pitted against each other in feats of prowess and heroism.

On June 15, the American TFP participated in one of the first Masses of newly ordained Father Jonathan Romanoski in Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in Harrisburg, Penns. The event was historic, because it was the first Latin Mass celebrated in the cathedral in over forty years.

Thousands of pro-family Poles marched through Warsaw on May 25 for the nation’s Third National March for Life and Family. The event was organized by the TFP-inspired Stowarzyszenie Kultury Chrzescijanskiej im. Ks. Piotra Skargi (Fr. Peter Skarga Association for Christian Culture) and the Fundacja Pro. It was fitting that the event was planned on the eve of Mother’s Day in Poland.

On May 17, God presented us with a beautiful spring day on which to hold our second annual regional conference held again at the historical Governor’s Row House in Topeka, Kans.

There was a warm and amiable atmosphere on May 10, when two busloads of Marian devotees from New Jersey visited the Pennsylvania headquarters of the American TFP and its America Needs Fatima campaign.

On the occasion of Pope Benedict XVI’s recent visit to the United States, the American Society for the Defense of Tradition Family and Property (TFP) welcomed him on the streets of Washington.

The America Needs Fatima staff is promoting this devotion in a 425,000 prayer-card campaign.

Historically, Catholic universities have been beacons of truth. They have set a standard of intellectual progress and moral excellence. They have elevated culture, formed the minds of great men, and paved the way for abundant scientific breakthroughs.

An unimaginable blasphemy is being shown at the Diocesan Museum of Vienna, Dommuseum, just across the street from the city’s magnificent Saint Stephen’s Cathedral. The exhibit, titled: “Religion, Flesh and Blood” includes an explicit portrayal of Our Lord and the Apostles at the Last Supper in the midst of a homosexual orgy.

On Palm Sunday, nearly fifty supporters and friends of the American TFP gathered in front of Union Station in Kansas City, Mo. to protest the ‘Bodies Revealed’ exhibit.

On March 30, the American TFP held a regional one-day conferences in St. Louis. Nearly fifty people attended the program held at the St. Agnes’ Home of the Carmelite Sisters of the Divine Heart of Jesus in the suburb of Kirkwood.

On March 8, Tradition, Family and Property — Louisiana hosted a regional one-day conferences in Lafayette, Louisiana. The event was held in the historic Grand Coteau House Ballroom in Grand Coteau.

A twenty-four month boycott against Ford Motor Companies, led by the American Family Association (AFA) and co-sponsored by Tradition, Family and Property Inc. and other groups has now ended with success.

Every year in February, the Cuban exile community of South Florida commemorates the more than 100,000 victims of the communist regime of Fidel Castro with a ceremony called Memorial Cubano.

From February 8-11, TFP members and the staff of Saint Louis de Montfort Academy held a weekend event for boys within driving distance of the school, in Herndon, Pennsylvania.

Feminists at 19 Catholic colleges and universities plan to assault Catholic moral teaching with performances of The V-Monologues. Year after year, during the weeks surrounding St. Valentine’s Day, prominent Catholic institutions have allowed the play to carry on despite its vulgar anti-Catholic message of sexual anarchy.

With the aid of an electronic keyboard, TFP member Philip Calder gave a presentation called “The Power of Music,” to audiences in Topeka and Kansas City over the February 2-3 weekend.

On the eve of the January 22 March for Life in the nation’s capital, the TFP sponsored a reception at its McLean, Va. center for local friends and supporters as well as for foreign pro-life delegations who came to attend the march.

Auxiliary Bishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Diego will lead a one-mile rosary procession to an abortion clinic on Sunday January 20, accompanied by the miraculous International Pilgrim Virgin statue of Our Lady of Fatima.

Assisted suicide advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian – a convicted felon known as “Dr. Death” – is scheduled to speak at the University of Florida on January 15. The TFP loudly protests.

On May 24, representatives of the Polish TFP, joined Cardinal Janis Pujats at the Chancellery Office of Riga at the official launching of a Latvian language edition of the American TFPs hard-hitting book Defending A Higher Law.