1997 – Last fall the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles exhibited a statue of Our Lady of Grace with a drain pipe through her womb and standing on a grate under which were human limbs in offensive positions. Promotional literature on the exhibit stated that “Robert Gober’s sterile Virgin Mary … Read more
Is Sodomy No Longer a Sin? An Urgent Appeal to Our Ecclesiastical Authorities. And the men of Sodom were very wicked, and sinners before the face of the Lord, beyond measure (Gen. 13:13). I. False Science, True Evil A Standard of Sin In our dark days, homosexuality, a shameful vice ever abhorred … Read more
The shocking nature of partial-birth abortion has inspired considerable indignation in sectors of public opinion that remain silent about the horror of more common methods of abortion, which claim more than 4,000 innocent lives each day. Abortion of any kind is sufficiently evil to demand our indignation. The very idea of a … Read more
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira Distinguished Apostle, Ardent and Intrepid Polemist The unexpected news of the death of Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira has moved us to ponder some chapters of his life and to reflect that the more intense the evils of an epoch, the more exceptional are the figures Divine Providence … Read more
A Tribute to the Great Catholic Counter-Revolutionary Leader Comforted by the Sacraments of the Catholic Church and having received the Apostolic Blessing, Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, founder of the Brazilian Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) and inspirer of 24 other TFPs and kindred associations around the … Read more
The momentous summit of the chief executives of the American states — with the well-merited exclusion of the Cuban — is an opportune occasion for the Societies for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) in the Americas to convey their convictions, apprehensions, and hopes in regards to our hemisphere and … Read more
Imagine a baby born in 1973, the year of the Supreme Court’s infamous Roe v. Wade abortion edict. His mother – rejecting the unnatural sin that cries to heaven for vengeance – gave him life and nurtured it: the labors of her love. Escaping the destiny of prenatal death – the fate … Read more
What is the difference between the elite and the upper class? The elite is the source of the upper class. Let us take the example of a small city to facilitate understanding the difference between the two. As noted, the elite of a city is formed by those who exercise prestigious activities … Read more
If there is one common denominator in the public and private lives in so many nations today, it is chaos. Chaotic perspectives seem to be multiplying as we head down the road to chaos, which no one really knows where it leads. The enigmatic forces of chaos produce explosions and eruptions that … Read more
Logic has often been lacking in our contemporaries. Nevertheless, logic tells us that besides the murder carried out in the act of abortion there are other consequences. Not only is the mother affected for life, so is her family. Abortion creates conditions in the human mentality to relativize the crimes that come … Read more