A Visit from Family

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When devotees of the Blessed Mother visit each other, it is a welcome and informal affair. After all, they have the same mother.Such was the warm atmosphere on May 10, when two busloads of Marian devotees from northern New Jersey visited the Pennsylvania headquarters of the American TFP and its America Needs … Read more

The Paratrooper’s Prayer

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The Paratrooper’s Prayer was written by Second Lieutenant André Louis Arthur Zirnheld, a parachutist in the Free French Army. While serving with the British SAS deep behind enemy lines in Libya, he was killed in action on July 27, 1942. Found in his officer’s note book was the following prayer entitled “The … Read more

The Rosary and Saint Dominic Defeat Heresy

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The Rosary — as spiritual weapon against evil — has a very long and precious history. In twelfth and thirteenth century France, a group of heretics known as the Albigensians was destroying the minds of the Catholic laity with its erroneous ideas. The Albigensians’ teachings encouraged suicide, many times by self-induced starvation, … Read more

Keeping up the Pressure:

With all the uproar about the abuse scandals, it seems unbelievable that an open sacrilegious scandal continues at the Diocesan Museum of Vienna, Dommuseum, just across the street from the city’s magnificent Saint Stephen’s Cathedral. The blasphemous exhibit, titled: “Religion, Flesh and Power, ” caused an uproar around Holy Week with its … Read more

Lula Watch: Vol.5 – No.12

Cristina Kirchner, Foreign Policy and “Lula-Chavezism” Hugo Chavez’s interference in Argentine politics is taking on unparalleled characteristics. It remains to be seen how Argentines will react 1. Argentina’s presidential candidate, Cristina Kirchner, a current senator and wife of President Néstor Kirchner, said that foreign policy will play a major role during her … Read more

Lula Watch: Vol.5 – No.11

Brazil: Booing Lula, Lethargy and Healthy Reactions Up until now, most Brazilians have been discouraged by their inability to do something against the mounting problems that overwhelm them. Such paralysis has served as a protective shield for President Lula and prevented healthy reactions On July 13 and 17, two events shook Brazil. … Read more

Lula Watch: Vol.5 – No.10

Uruguay of the Broad Front: Youth Exodus, Insecurity and Disenchantment Warning signs as symptoms abound of psychological and social disintegration of the country, in contrast with optimistic images presented by the ‘Front’ government Twenty-eight months after the heterogeneous leftist coalition known as the Broad Front won a narrow victory in Uruguay, some … Read more

Lula Watch: Focusing on the Latin American Left – Vol.5 – No.8

Colombia at a Crossroads: “Para-political” Scandals and Leftist Revenge More than a president’s political survival, what appears to be at stake is the future of important sectors of the right and center-right in Colombia that did not bow to the narco-guerrillas that have bloodied the nation for decades On April 17, Colombian … Read more

Remembering the Forgotten First Saturdays

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Most candid souls will admit that the world is in spiritual pain. Continual disregard of Fatima’s warning will doom generations to spiritual bankruptcy. This is especially true in the disregard for the First Saturday devotions. The American TFP’s America Needs Fatima campaign is making a special effort to help Catholics remember. Our … Read more