Michael Drake: What is the significance of the natural moral law for a secularized country? Bishop McManus: The recognition of a natural, moral law provides the common ground between believers and non-believers about the fundamental moral issues affecting the common good and our living together. In a morally relativist society like the … Read more
The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) and its America Needs Fatima campaign are gearing up to protest against the blasphemous movie The Da Vinci Code when it is released nationwide on May 19, 2006. The organization hopes to recruit tens of thousands of its activists to … Read more
The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) and its America Needs Fatima campaign are gearing up to protest against the blasphemous movie The Da Vinci Code when it is released nationwide on May 19, 2006. The organization hopes to recruit tens of thousands of its activists to … Read more
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva marks his third year in government and begins the final and most decisive period of his mandate. Presidential and legislative elections are scheduled for October. This is an opportune moment to summarize Lula’s third year at the helm, which was full of great changes in Brazil’s … Read more
The Innocent Suffer and the Guilty Go Free? In state legislatures across the nation, a mania is spreading to introduce bills to lift or extend retroactively statutes of limitations related to sexual abuse. The bills will permit thousands of civil tort lawsuits to be brought not against offending priests, religious or bishops … Read more
It was early December and many old friends were around the table in lively conversation after months of being scattered across America as part of the “Katrina Diaspora.” Stories of personal adventures and misadventures, loss and separation from family and friends, were bantered back and forth. Everyone had just returned from the … Read more
In 2003 the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property—TFP helped to voice the Catholic outcry across the nation against legislative bills in several states that would oblige a priest to break the Seal of Confession. Many Catholic cardinals, bishops and priests affirmed they would go to jail rather … Read more
""""[vc_column_text] On March 18, over thirty American TFP friends and members gathered at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Richmond, Virginia to launch the TFP’s latest book, Rejecting The Da Vinci Code. The speaker, Mr. Byron Whitcraft, delivered an exposition on the book’s contents and the reasons why fighting against this latest attack … Read more
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“Bless me, Father, for I have sinned…” These opening words of confession to a priest constitute a sublime act of humility that marks the lives of so many Catholics. However, that act of trust and healing is threatened by a third party, the State, which may soon have the right to listen. … Read more
The American TFP’s hard-hitting book, Defending a Higher Law, is now available online in pdf format. The work outlines the dangers that the homosexual agenda poses to society, refutes common myths concerning homosexuality and clearly outlines Church teaching on the sin of sodomy.