Students United at Conference in Germany

“What I liked about the summer conference was that everyone was on the same page,” remarked one American student. “We came from all over but we were all united in thought.” Such sentiments reflected those of many participants at the TFP’s 2008 Eighth International Student Summer Conference (Université d’été) in Kleinheubach, Germany. … Read more

A Link with the Left

A Link with the Left

Words can have a magical effect on people. Their simple usage can even change the way the public views people and positions. Long ago, the left figured this out and has taken full advantage of the fact. Thus, when homosexuals became “gays” and pro-abortionists became “pro-choicers” their status somehow improved, in spite … Read more

Largest Ever Louisiana Summer Camp: United in the Faith

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 … Read more

Wholesome Regionalism and Leveling Cosmopolitanism

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The following text is taken from an informal lecture Professor Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira gave on December 10, 1970. It has been translated and adapted for publication without his revision. – Ed. There is an interesting passage in Saint Thérèse’s famous Story of a Soul, in which she speaks of the cultural … Read more

The Prophet Daniel and the Beauty of Death

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The following text is taken from an informal lecture Professor Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira gave on July 20, 1968. It has been translated and adapted for publication without his revision. – Ed. July 21 is the feast of the Prophet Daniel. The last words that the angel said to him were: “But … Read more

Reparation in Cincinnati: “Our Lady Sent the Rain…”

On June 26, over 70 Catholics joined the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) and its America Needs Fatima campaign in front of the New Stage Collective in Cincinnati to protest the blasphemous work, “Jerry Springer: The Opera in Concert.”It was not an ordinary protest. It began … Read more

Blessed Francisco: Contemplator of the Universe

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In May 1946, Sister Lucia, then a Dorothean nun, went to Fatima to visit the sites of the apparitions of the angel (1916) and Our Lady (1917). At Valinhos, where the fourth apparition of Our Lady took place, a group was waiting for her that including her uncle Marto, the father of … Read more

Why Homosexual Activists Hate General Peter Pace

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President Bush has awarded Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), General Peter Pace the US’s highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Not surprisingly, he is once again enduring a “moral lynching” at the hands of liberal media and homosexual activists across the nation. Controversy began plaguing General … Read more