On Saturday, December 3, the TFP Washington Bureau was filled with friends and supporters who braved a blustery winter night to hear a presentation on the hard-hitting book just authored by the TFP Committee on American Issues, Rejecting The Da Vinci Code: How a Blasphemous Novel Brutally Attacks Our Lord and the … Read more
As part of its massive protest against blasphemy, the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) and its America Needs Fatima campaign are targeting tens of thousands of their activists sending them copies of the book, Rejecting The Da Vinci Code. By spreading the book to select membership … Read more
Year after year, our secular culture seeks to eradicate every public display of devotion to the Christ Child during the Christmas season. “Merry Christmas” is replaced with an empty-sounding, “Happy Holidays.” Cities rename their traditional Christmas trees “Holiday” trees and nativity scenes are removed or banned from public squares. The trend is … Read more
When Terrence McNally’s work Corpus Christi shows at the University of Nebraska’s Studio Theatre on December 1-3, it will generate plenty of controversy and negative publicity. Wherever it is staged, the blasphemous play, which portrays Our Lord Jesus Christ and the apostles as homosexuals, always triggers protests from deeply offended Catholics who … Read more
American soldiers face the prospect of serious injury and death with unflinching courage. Their existence within a nation dominated by a self centered “me culture” is yet another paradox which can be found “only in America.” When Todd Beamer boarded Flight 93 on September 11, he never dreamed that terrorists intended to … Read more
Reflecting on the sad state to which Communism had reduced him one cold autumn evening in 1948, Whittaker Chambers describes feeling that he no longer had the will to continue his struggles against the Communist party. “It was that death of the will which Communism, with great cunning, always tries to induce … Read more
It is said a picture is worth a thousand words, but a well chosen word can make an otherwise clear picture, quite obscure. This became very evident for me recently as I read an Associated Press article1 about how 76 insurgents were killed in fierce fighting. For some time now, I have … Read more
On November 22, TFP supporter Sergio de Paz brought a pilgrim statue of Our Lady of Fatima to the home where Cuban child refugee Elian Gonzalez spent four short months. The six-year old boy was rescued at sea while escaping from communist Cuba. He became the center of a diplomatic battle … Read more
The string of natural calamities and man-made tragedies afflicting the world and the United States, particularly Hurricane Katrina in late August, have stimulated many people to reflection. Some see these tragic events as God’s chastisement of a sinful mankind; others see them as yet one more merciful warning from Providence; others yet … Read more
To call abortion what it is – a grave sin – on any college campus is like exposing a raw nerve or scrubbing an infected wound. At least that is the experience of members of TFP Student Action in the past, and it was no different this time at the University of … Read more