The American TFP has been combating public blasphemy and sacrilege since 1978. In that year, it’s first public protest was against a Planned Parenthood pamphlet which contained a horrible caricature of the Blessed Virgin Mary. A crowd of 1,500 Catholics gathered in front of Planned Parenthood’s offices in New York and Planned Parenthood issued an official letter of apology. From that time, the TFP has organized dozens of protests against blasphemies involving art exhibits, plays, movies, cartoons and books. In recent years, the TFP has organized rallies in reparation for satanic black masses performed in Oklahoma and blasphemous Broadway shows and art exhibits in New York City.
One of the surest signs of a successful blasphemy protest is the presence of a counter-protest. The offending parties seem to be saying that protesters are so important that they cannot afford to ignore them. It was hard to ignore the scores of Catholics who braved the rainy weather to pray and … Read more
On May 16, twelve members of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property left their home in Spring Grove, Pennsylvania. Their destination: the Kresge Little Theater at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Their purpose: hold a 2-1/2 hour rally, in protest against the play, The Most Fabulous … Read more
The American TFP’s America Needs Fatima campaign has announced that it will be demonstrating at Cincinnati’s Know Theater on June 14 as part of its nationwide protest against the play Corpus Christi, which portrays Our Lord Jesus Christ and the apostles as homosexuals. TFP website users may also register their protests now. … Read more
At an institute of “higher learning.” one would expect high standards. However, this is not the case at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) which is staging the play The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told. In reply, the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) and its America … Read more
Many of us buy wall calendars but after casually flipping through the pictures the first two weeks of the year we tend to forget them. Ozzy Osbourne’s latest extravagant effort, a family calendar, is hard to forget. The front cover displays the vulgarity and crudeness for which he is so known. A … Read more
The American press announced reports about The Virgin Mary, a British Broadcasting Company (BBC) “documentary” insulting the virginity of Our Lady shortly before Christmas. The pseudo-documentary explored three alternatives to the Incarnation of the Word, the perpetual virginity of Mary Most Holy, and the virgin birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ. “The … Read more
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. The Crime of Father Amaro portrays a priest who has relations with a 16 year-old girl under a robe … Read more
Throwing mud at the Catholic Church has become fashionable. Whether it be blasphemous artwork, insulting movies or sacrilegious plays, open anti-Catholicism is wide-spread and ever present. Convinced that this is due to Catholics failing to stand up for their beliefs, three full-time volunteers of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, … Read more
There are worse films showing in the nation’s theaters. However, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys is symptomatic of our times. Here is an R-rated film about two altar boys at a Catholic school who lose their innocence and create problems for their teacher, Sister Assumpta, whom they portray in a comic … Read more
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 over two hundred protesters appeared on the same weekend on a media giant’s doorstep, reporters were hard to find. Tragically, Catholics have come to expect such … Read more