On Sunday, December
22, TFP volunteers, and supporting members of America
Needs Fatima from the Washington, D.C. area held a
prayer vigil and protest rally in front of the British
Broadcasting Corporation's (BBC) American headquarters
in Bethesda, Maryland.
The Rochester, N.Y.
chapter of Call to Holiness sponsored a launching
for the hard-hitting book just authored by the TFP
Commission for American Issues, I Have Weathered
Other Storms: A Response to the Scandals and Democratic
Reforms that Threaten the Catholic Church. Over
70 people attended the event at the Locust Hill Country
Club on December 15.
Braving the elements,
over 125 people gathered to protest the Somerville
Theater's lesbian version of the Christmas story.
TFP and America Needs Fatima members responded to
the play with a nationwide campaign of prayer and
peaceful protest. On Saturday, December 7, a prayer
vigil and rally of reparation in front of the theater
marked the conclusion of the campaign.
The highly-offensive
movie The Crime of Father Amaro was supposedly
a success in Mexico but it seems to be falling flat
in America. Everywhere it goes it is meeting with
protests, prayer and…cancellations.
With the Catholic
Church mired in sexual-abuse scandals, the American
Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property
(TFP) is now releasing a book that teaches Catholics
how to react to the climate of intense emotion and
confusion that warps the debate and hinders a true
solution to the crisis.
Our Louisiana chapter
sponsored a two-day event for mothers and daughters
titled Good Manners and Social Graces. From November
17 - 23, this mini-seminar, organized in Baton Rouge,
Lafayette and Alexandria, emphasized the spiritual
foundation of good manners through the virtue of charity.
On November 14,
Hollywood Boulevard was home to an out-of-character
event when 125 Catholics assembled at Galaxy Theaters
for a rally of peaceful protest and reparation hosted
by the American TFP's America Needs Fatima campaign.
A political electoral
change is limited without a corresponding cultural
change. These were the sentiments of TFP speaker Mario
Navarro da Costa in talks given during a November
8-10 Kansas tour.
Jesus Has Two
Mommies mocks the Virgin Birth, the Holy Family,
and shows the Child Jesus born to two lesbians, Mary
and Josephine. The opera portrays Mary and Josephine's
affair at a lesbian bar as the "real Christmas
story."
On the October 13
weekend, the American TFP gathered together over 200
members, supporters and friends of Fatima, for a series
of meetings linked to the internal situation of the
Church and the nation.
An athlete? A supermodel?
A 21st-century homegirl? Those are some of the expressions
used by The Los Angeles Times to describe this
bare-armed statue of "Our Lady of the Angels"
at the new Cathedral in Los Angeles, California. We
ask our readers: Is this Our Lady?
Throwing mud at
the Catholic Church has become fashionable because
Catholics rarely stand up for their Faith. With this
in mind, the American TFP decided to take such a stand
in Chicago.
The funny papers
are not always funny. This is apparent from a horribly
offensive anti-Catholic comic strip appearing in The
Chicago Reader. In response, the American Society
for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property
(TFP) is launching, through its America Needs Fatima
(ANF) network, a massive campaign of peaceful protest.
On July 20, over
4,000 people gathered in Boston for the first national
conference of Voice of the Faithful, a pressure group
which hopes to thrust Catholics on the horns of a
false dilemma: allow structural reforms in the Church
or be labeled an accomplice to sexual abuse.
Finding something
exciting to do over summer vacation was not difficult
for those students attending the Université
d’été. This summer university
course was held at the Château du Jaglu near
the cathedral city of Chartres. The location, curriculum
and fellowship made this program a Catholic student’s
summer dream.
From August 1-10,
the American TFP held a summer camp for boys aged
11-18 at its national headquarters in Spring Grove,
Penn. Modeled largely on an earlier camp in Louisana,
(for the story click here), the Pennsylvania camp
proved equally challenging and exciting.
There are all kinds
of summer camps for boys specializing in teaching
everything from tennis to computer programming. However,
the recent TFP Summer Program in Louisana was a unique
experience.
American TFP President
Raymond Drake has sent a letter of congratulations
to Senator Sam Brownback on the occasion of his conversion
to the Catholic Faith.
On
June 23, 2002, the American Society for the Defense
of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) organized
a pilgrimage to the National Shrine of Our Lady of
Lebanon in North Jackson Ohio.
When a few dozen
protesters appeared in front of Boston’s Catholic
Cathedral to protest local scandals, major media coverage
could not have been greater. However, when two hundred
protesters appeared on the same weekend on a media
giant’s doorstep, enduring the hot southern Californian
sun, reporters were hard to find.
Child abuse
is not the only the item on the agenda in Dallas.
Pressure groups, with extensive coverage from the
secular media, are taking advantage of the crisis
to foment revolution inside the Church.
To a full house
of nearly one hundred TFP members, friends and supporters
at the TFP's Washington Bureau in McLean, Va., Fr. John
Trigilio,Ph.D. discussed the background to the present
scandals in the Church. His talk on the subject “The
Church Will Prevail!” sought to put the crisis
in proper perspective.
On April 27-30,
the International Pilgrim Statue of Our Lady of Fatima
visited the Headquarters of the American Society for
the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property, in Spring
Grove, Penn., where over 100 TFP members, supporters
and friends gathered to pray for America, and the fulfillment
of Our Lady's Fatima prophesies.
America has reached
a crossroads at which it must choose either to "pursue
medical research with a clear sense of moral purpose,"
or "travel without an ethical compass into a world
we could live to regret."
The violence
of the storm currently assailing the Church would likely
bring down many a human institution, but not the institution
supported by God's own promises.
It seems major media
cannot offend Catholics enough. ABC recently aired graphic
sexual insults against God and jokes about the virgin
birth of Jesus, the Church and the Eucharist on the
Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher show.
The city
of Napa is traditionally known as the California's leading
wine center. Now it is known for what Catholics across
the country consider blasphemous anti-Catholic "art"
displays.
Ten Questions.
It seemed so simple. In an academic atmosphere like
George Washington University, ten questions should have
had all the makings of a grand debate.
We know
the Taliban and al-Qaeda terrorists, the radical Islamic
fundamentalism and the suicide bomber. September 11
has engraved these images of the enemy all too well
in our minds. However, as we contemplate the next phase
of the war on terrorism, there is a subversive side
of our enemy we do not know well. This enemy works from
within.
It is a
sad state of things when even a simple trip to the supermarket
could be an occasion to view insults ridiculing the
Faith. That is exactly what is happening as a leading
greeting card company is marketing cards with dirty
jokes and cartoons about Jesus, Mary and the Catholic
Faith. To take a stand against these insults,
Tens of
thousands of anti-abortion protesters from across the
nation gathered on January 22 in Washington DC for the
29th March for Life. Members and supporters of the American
Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property
(TFP) were among the participants, appearing with their
characteristic standards and its marching brass band.
Four months
have passed since the brutal attacks of September 11th,
but as the smoke clears at ground zero, the world emerges
to face an all-important decision. Will it return to
God and thus arise stronger, and more ready to face
the challenges of an uncertain future, or will it allow
evil to continue unabated and thus call down upon itself
the great chastisements Our Lady predicted at Fatima?
With this in mind, the American Society for the Defense
of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) gathered men
from France, Brazil, Germany, Poland, Ukraine and the
United States for a weekend to get acquainted with the
thought of the TFP founder Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira.
On January
27, 2002, the American TFP sent a letter to President
George W. Bush urging him to resist worldwide pressure
to classify al-Quaeda and Taliban terrorists as "prisoners
of war" under the 1949 Geneva Convention. A similar
letter was also sent to Defense Secretary Donald H.
Rumsfeld. Liberal, leftist and socialist groups worldwide
are trying to equate the soldier who has left home and
family to fight honorably for his country with the terrorist
who dishonorably respects neither innocent life nor
rule of law. Such an equation is unacceptable. It is
an insult to all who serve in our armed forces.
