Part 1 1. The “Zero Hunger” program’s total discredit Among these mishaps are reverses suffered by the so-called “Zero Hunger” program, one of President Lula da Silva’s main battle flags and most important contribution to social welfare. While President Lula has failed to create a national consensus for this welfare initiative, it … 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
On Friday, January 24, the TFP Washington Bureau invited friends and supporters to a local launching for the hard-hitting book just authored by the TFP Commission for American Issues, I Have Weathered Other Storms: A Response to the Scandals and Democratic Reforms that Threaten the Catholic Church. Speaker John Horvat of the … Read more
Facing frigid weather and glacial winds the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) joined well over 100,000 concerned Americans from across the country for the annual March for Life in Washington D.C. The January 22 march was particularly meaningful this year since it marked thirty years since … Read more
January 20 was a frigid day. With three Hail Marys, friends and members of TFP Student Action set out on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg, Maryland. They did not drive, but walked as a great means to make reparation for the sin of abortion. Carrying … Read more
“If God be for us, who is against us?” (Romans, 8:31) As we enter 2003, we live in the realization that our world has changed. In the aftermath of September 11, foundations of our modernity are shaken and our way of life threatened. Politically we live amid wars and rumors of … Read more
After the Elections… As President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva and the Workers’ Party (PT) begin to govern Brazil, an important political cycle opens in Latin American politics. Given Brazil’s geo-political importance, its policies will affect events throughout South America and thus may come to shape American foreign policy in the region. … Read more
The Honorable Colin Powell Secretary of State U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street N.W. Washington, D.C. 20520 Dear Secretary Powell: Since its founding in 1969, the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) has spent approximately $5 billion implementing global population reduction. Using predominantly U.N. data and source material, the Catholic … Read more
With the election of Luis Inacio Lula de Silva (Lula) in Brazil, our southern neighbor took a sharp turn to the left. “Lula” together with leftist leaders in Ecuador, Venezuela and Cuba threatens to form an “axis of evil” south of the border. To make Americans aware of this danger, the TFP … Read more
The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property’s America Needs Fatima campaign (ANF) has been spreading the messages of Our Lady of Fatima through personal home visitations for over five years and recently tallied the statistics. In 16,208 visits it has personally spread Our Lady’s Fatima message to over … Read more