Tuesday April 19th, 2005 VIA FACSIMILE His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI Apostolic Palace Vatican City Your Holiness: With deep emotion, the directors and members of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property thank Divine Providence for Your Holiness’ ascension to the Chair of Peter. May the Blessed Virgin … Read more
Letter to our newly elected Pope Benedict XVI Tuesday April 19th, 2005 VIA FACSIMILE His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI Apostolic Palace Vatican City Your Holiness: With deep emotion, the directors and members of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property thank Divine Providence for Your Holiness’ ascension to … Read more
On Tuesday, April 5, Kansas became the eighteenth state to amend its constitution by defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman. The second part of the amendment also declared that only traditional unions of one man and one woman would be entitled to the “rights and incidents” of … Read more
A Filial Supplication to the Unknown Pope As the funeral of His Holiness John Paul II comes to a close, the Catholic world, after manifestations of mourning and sorrow, now enters a period of reflection, prayer and hope, looking forward to the conclave. The large crowds that spontaneously flocked to the Eternal … Read more
On March 13-14, over 100 supporters and friends of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) traveled to Cincinnati, Ohio to view the St. Peter and the Vatican Exhibit that will be showing at the Cincinnati Museum Center through April 18. Families and supporters came from Pennsylvania, … Read more
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. As a … Read more
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 … Read more
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. The overwhelming majority of people today would probably say that the Renaissance was a rebirth. Mr.Whitcraft, however, demonstrated with quotes from … Read more
A motivated contingent of twenty-five TFP members and St. Louis de Montfort Academy students traveled to Penn State University on Monday morning, March 14, to rally for Terri Schiavo’s survival. TFP’s presence at the busy intersection of Allen Street and College Avenue in State College was eye-catching. Three bagpipers filled the crisp … Read more
You would have to be blind to miss members of TFP Student Action at Gettysburg College today. They were collecting petitions urging Governor Jeb Bush to redouble his efforts to save Terri Schiavo from forced court-ordered starvation in Florida, a plight causing nationwide controversy between moral values Americans and euthanasia proponents. Time … Read more