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by TFP.org September 1, 2022

Here are some insightful articles that reveal the positions of Pope Francis on major moral, spiritual and political issues: ✧ ☩ ✧ On Pope Francis’s ‘Mea Culpa’ in Canada Will Pope Francis Approve Homosexual Sin Denying Catholic Doctrine? Pope Francis Calls Cuba a Symbol—of What? How Pope Francis’s Canadian Trip Undermines the Traditional Catholic … Read more

Remembering Mikhail Gorbachev As He Was, Not as the Optimistic West Imagined Him to Be

by John Horvat II August 31, 2022

Mikhail Gorbachev died in obscurity in Moscow at the age of 91. He was a bright star on the world stage at the end of the Cold War. He held the West spellbound by his crafty proposals as academics, pundits and the man on the street were transfixed by his image, rhetoric … Read more

Liberal Catholics Have Lost the Culture War (But Refuse to Admit It)

by José Antonio Ureta August 31, 2022

Credit must be given to Prof. Massimo Faggioli on at least one count: he shows candid frankness by saying what his liberal Catholic comrades refuse to admit while hiding their heads in the sand. The Villanova University scholar wrote two articles in La Croix International shortly after the publication of Querida Amazonia … Read more

Biden’s Socialist Student Relief Scheme Will Make All Future Student Debt Irrelevant

by John Horvat II August 30, 2022

President Biden’s plan to forgive student debt is very controversial. Most students will get a $10,000 debt reduction, while lower-income students will be eligible to double the amount. Biden’s August giveaway adds half a trillion dollars to the Federal Government’s debt deficit by some estimates. It’s easy to be generous with other … Read more

Being ‘Pro-Choice’ Is No Longer Enough. You Must Be Anti-Pro-Life

by Michael Haynes September 16, 2022August 29, 2022

The overturning of Roe v. Wade has highlighted the inherently anti-life nature of the “pro-choice” advocates, with abortion campaigners urging ever stronger—and more violent—retaliation against pro-lifers. With the conflict between the pro-life cause and the pro-abortion movement now so public, it appears that it is not enough to be a “pro-choicer” to … Read more

How the Ultramontane Movement Led to the Resurgence of Catholicism in England

by Fernando Furquim de Almeida August 26, 2022

Many Catholics today are unaware of the immense contributions of the Ultramontanes of the nineteenth century to the resurgence of Catholicism worldwide. Prof. Fernando Furquim de Almeida (1913-1981) studied the movement and produced dozens of articles detailing the movement’s work. We have edited these articles and will be featuring them. They highlight … Read more

What It’s Like Fighting Abortion in Chicago after Roe v. Wade

by Joseph Dunlap November 28, 2022August 25, 2022

“Not your body, not your choice. The baby’s body, the baby’s voice!” That slogan put pro-abortion liberals in downtown Chicago on the defensive when volunteers of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property (TFP) visited the Windy City on August 15, 2022. With bagpipes, banners, and pro-family leaflets, … Read more

Three Marvelous Stories From America Needs Fatima’s Home Visitation Program that Will Warm Your Heart

by Rex Teodosio March 8, 2025August 25, 2022

It is well known in Catholic circles that people have received many graces, blessings and miracles at the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal. Fatima’s many pilgrim statues have extended these blessings wherever they travel, especially the International Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima, now under the custodianship … Read more

The Novus Ordo Weaponized for “Another Faith”?

by José Antonio Ureta August 25, 2022

Editor’s Note: This is the last of five articles taken from an important study by French TFP director José Antonio Ureta about the theological foundations of the recent Apostolic Exhortation Desiderio Desideravi. The Mass “of Another Faith”? An Uncomfortable Question In the four aspects analyzed in the preceding parts—(1) the purpose of … Read more

From Priests of Sacrifice to Presidents Over Assemblies

by José Antonio Ureta August 24, 2022

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth of five articles taken from an important study by French TFP director José Antonio Ureta about the theological foundations of the recent Apostolic Exhortation Desiderio Desideravi. The other articles are here, here, here and here. The Unique Role of the Priest in the Mass In Mediator … Read more