The American TFP decries
the advertisement offering a statue of the Blessed Mother
called “Extra Virgin,” wrapped in a contraceptive
“veil of latex” that appeared in the December
5 issue of the Jesuit weekly magazine America.
On 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.
Comedian Denis Leary has
offended the sensibilities of millions of Catholics by
making a blasphemous "Anti-Christmas Christmas special."
You can protest now by clicking the picture above.
On
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.
On Saturday, December
3, the TFP Washington Bureau was filled with friends and
supporters who came to hear a presentation on the hard-hitting
book just authored by the TFP Committee on American Issues,
Rejecting The Da Vinci Code.
As part of its massive
protest against blasphemy, the American Society for the
Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) and its
America Needs Fatima campaign are targeting tens of thousands
of their activists sending them copies of the book, Rejecting
The Da Vinci Code.
Wherever
it is staged, the blasphemous play Corpus Christi,
which portrays Our Lord Jesus Christ and the apostles
as homosexuals, always triggers protests from deeply offended
Catholics who have come to Our Lord’s defense with
vibrant and moving acts of reparation.
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.
As
part of campaign against Dan Brown’s The Da
Vinci Code, the American Society for the Defense
of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) is holding promotional
talks for its new book. During the November 4-6 weekend,
American TFP Vice President John Horvat launched the book
in Topeka, Kans. and St. Louis.
When 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.
When art is offensive,
it is only natural that those offended protest –
all have the right to speak out freely. And yet it is
ironic that those “artists” that produce such
works protest when people protest.
Students, 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.
In 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, in
Washington D.C. on November 1, 2005.
Denouncing the use of
fiction to spread error, the book, Rejecting The Da
Vinci Code: How a Blasphemous Novel Brutally Attacks Our
Lord and the Catholic Church, is certain to be part
of the controversy surrounding the soon-to-be-released
film version of the bestseller.
During 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."
The 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: How a Blasphemous Novel Brutally Attacks Our
Lord and the Catholic Church. In addition, participants
were invited to pay a special tribute to Prof. Plinio
Corrêa de Oliveira on the tenth anniversary of his
death.
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.
While The Da Vinci
Code book is a nationwide bestseller with plenty
of publicity, not much is known about the film version
of the novel. In a measure that appears to avoid controversy,
the movie company is keeping the movie script under wraps.
Its web site lists no details on the set.
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.
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.
America Needs Fatima is
distributing copies of My One Hour Meditation booklet,
written by the fiery Catholic leader Professor Plinio
Corrêa de Oliveira.
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.
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.
On August 12, Kansas State
Representative Mary Pilcher Cook gave an informative presentation
about stem cell research and cloning to TFP supporters
and friends in the Topeka area.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When I heard that my bishop,
Most Reverend Kevin Rhoades, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
was planning a procession and rosary in front a local
abortion clinic, I was excited and pleasantly surprised.
Due to their busy schedule and load of administrative
work, few bishops would take three hours early on a Saturday
morning to lead their flock in protest.
Mr. Calvert warns that
the evolution issue is going to snowball into a monumental
national debate. Kansas is currently becoming the center
of this debate.
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.
Once
again, protests have been proven effective. After receiving
an avalanche of protest emails, petitions and calls eBay
has changed its policy and will now refuse to sell consecrated
Hosts and other sacred objects.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
In a letter to Governor Jeb Bush, American TFP president
Raymond Drake emphasized the organization’s total
rejection for the unjustified killing.
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.
For TFP supporters and
friends in Kansas, drinking tea became a learning experience.The
program consists of several presentations. The first was
about Madame Elisabeth of France, the sister of King Louis
XVI.
On
February 22, NBC aired an unspeakably blasphemous episode
of the sitcom "Committed," in which two non-Catholics
accidentally receive the Holy Eucharist at a funeral Mass.
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.
In Poland, the TFP-inspired
Fr. Peter
Skarga Association for Christian Culture (Stowarzyszenie
Kultury Chrzescijanskiej im. Ks. Piotra Skargi) has just
published the American TFP’s book in the Polish
language.
As the same-sex "marriage"
debate rages worldwide, the American Society for the Defense
of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) welcomed an encouraging
commentary on its 2004 book defending traditional marriage
from Cardinal Jorge A. Medina Estèvez.
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.
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.
On January 24, people
from across the nation and around the world faced icy
cold temperatures at the Mall in Washington D.C. for the
32nd annual March for Life. The event was attended by
over 100,000 people who gathered to express their repudiation
for the infamous 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that denied
pre-born children the right to life.
