Shortly after the passage of pro-traditional marriage Proposition 8 in California in November 2008, Crusade Magazine’s associate editor Michael Drake interviewed Bishop Salvatore Cordileone, recently named Bishop of Oakland, California. Bishop Cordileone is also a member of the episcopal advisory board for the Institute for Religious Life. * * * Crusade Magazine: If homosexual … Read more
On March 18, Le Monde newspaper offended millions of Catholic worldwide when it published a sacrilegious cartoon depicting Our Lord handing out condoms from a boat to the excited masses. The American TFP is asking Catholics to protest. The cartoon reads: “The multiplication of the condoms followed the multiplication of the loaves.” … Read more
Chanting “Leave the Church alone! Leave the Church alone!” 4,200 faithful Catholics gathered outside the State Capitol Building in Hartford, Connecticut, on Wednesday to oppose Senate Bill 1098. The proposed bill directly attacks the hierarchical nature of the Catholic Church and attempts to usurp the rightful authority of bishops and pastors in … Read more
In Her 2,000-year history, the Catholic Church has suffered untold persecutions, some bloody, others not; some public and declared, others veiled and insidious.Sadly, the persecution at times is instigated by dissidents within the bosom of the Church, attempting to harness the State’s coercive power to muscle into the Church their unorthodox reforms. … Read more
Unheralded and unexpected, Bishop Marquis arrived at the rectory of Saint Jean Baptiste in New York City on a Sunday morning, May 1, 1892. Traveling from Rome to Quebec, he had stopped in New York to rest before continuing his trip. No sooner did Fr. Frederick Tetreau and his assistants learn of the … Read more
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Last February 11 marked the 150th anniversary of the first apparition of Our Lady in Lourdes. In light of this anniversary year, we are publishing the following article that was originally written on the centennial of the apparitions in 1958. Everyone knows the basic story. It began in 1854 when the great … Read more
On November 16, 2007, the American TFP published a paid advertisement in Columbus, Georgia’s Ledger-Inquirer, titled: To SOA Watch Protesters: Be Consistent! To the Military: Be Proud! The statement condemned leftist protesters that had gathered at the gates of Fort Benning that weekend to demonstrate against the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security … Read more
The Assumption was a beautiful favor God granted to His mother. It began when Our Lady, very suavely died. Her passing is customarily called Our Lady’s dormition because the grace with which she passed from this life and the short elapse before her resurrection, made her death seem more like a dream.After … Read more
Updated July 7, 2018. On July 25, the feast of Saint James the Apostle, the Church observes the 50th anniversary of the publication of the Encyclical Humanae Vitae (Of Human Life), by Pope Paul VI. The Sexual Revolution The context of the encyclical letter was the Sexual Revolution of the mid-sixties. Fashion, … Read more
Early on August 6, 1945, a lone American B-29 Superfortress bomber circled in a vividly blue sky over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The unsuspecting inhabitants on the ground barely glanced at the plane. They were unaware of the deadly payload it was about to unleash on them, ushering in the atomic … Read more