Catholic Perspective | TFP

The True Role of Guardian Angels

by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira October 1, 2025August 13, 2009

While the role of Guardian Angels is to guard men, institutions, cities and nations, we often have a distorted image of the functions of these angels. Many see them as beings that are good just to obtain advantages for us. However, this is not their only role. They exist above all to … Read more

The Allure of Lourdes

by John Horvat II February 6, 2024July 31, 2009

As I sat down in the train for the final leg of my trip to Lourdes, I could not help but reflect that this was a trip repeated so many times by tens of millions of pilgrims from all over the world over the last 150 years. They had made this same … Read more

Hope of a Hopeless World

by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira June 5, 2018June 20, 2009

If there is an age whose sole hope lies in the Sacred Heart of Jesus, it is our own. The evils committed by mankind today can scarcely be exaggerated. To mention just a few, these include blasphemy, the destruction of the family through abortion, divorce, euthanasia, widespread pornography, immoral fashions and lifestyles, … Read more

Interview with Robert Spencer: Explaining the Islamist Threat

by The American TFP May 10, 2017June 5, 2009

American TFP member Richard Lyon interviewed Robert Spencer, a noted expert on Islamic affairs and author of several books. Mr. Lyon asked him to address the nature of Islam and the different strategies and tactics it uses in the West. TFP: Both as a specialist in Islam and as a Catholic, could … Read more

Video of TFP-ANF Members Protesting at Notre Dame

by TFP.org December 30, 2020June 3, 2009

This is a short video of TFP–ANF’s protest out front of the gates of the University of Notre Dame. Thousands of pro-life Catholics lined the streets leading to the main gate of the university. Dotting the sidewalks for miles, they prayed the Rosary, held signs and protested the university’s scandalous decision to … Read more

Dialogue At Notre Dame: Undermining the Abortion Debate

by Luiz Sérgio Solimeo December 6, 2016June 3, 2009

In his speech introducing President Barack Obama at the 2009 Commencement ceremony at the University of Notre Dame, Father John I. Jenkins, C.S.C, president of the most emblematic Catholic university in the nation, did more than try to justify the invitation and the granting of an honoris causa degree to a politician … Read more

Garcia Moreno, President of Ecuador, Writes to His Holiness Blessed Pius IX

by Gabriel Garcia Moreno February 11, 2017June 3, 2009

Quito, July 17, 1875 Most Holy Father, For some time now I have intensely wished to write to Your Holiness again; but I have been kept from doing so for fear of taking your time, which is too precious and necessary for the rule of the Catholic world. Notwithstanding this, today I … Read more

“By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them”

by Norman Fulkerson December 6, 2016May 31, 2009

Apostles of the Fatima message rarely see the fruits of their labor in this life. I found this out firsthand during a visit to Augusta, Georgia. During the coffee break following Mass, the parish priest asked us to say a word about our work. After explaining our home visits with the statue … Read more

Why Does Our Lady Cry?

by The American TFP January 4, 2019May 12, 2009

The following is the TFP’s statement on the Notre Dame graduation controversy. Our Lady shed tears at the foot of the Cross, how could she not shed tears contemplating the Passion of Holy Mother Church today? Our Lady cries when she sees how secularism has declared open war on the Catholic Church … Read more

Saint Nuno Alvares Pereira: A Warrior and a Man of Faith

by Benjamin Hiegert August 13, 2017April 23, 2009

On April 26, 2009, the Portuguese Count Nuno Alvares Pereira is to be canonized, nearly six centuries after his death. Saint Nuno Alvares had a brilliant military career and became the Constable of Portugal. Later, out of gratitude for a miraculous victory he won over the Spaniards, Saint Nuno built the Gothic … Read more