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Bishop McElroy’s Implementation of ‘Amoris Laetitia’: “Embrace LGBT Families”

by Luiz Sérgio Solimeo November 30, 2017December 8, 2016

Most Reverend Robert W. McElroy, Bishop of San Diego, convened a Diocesan Synod on October 29-30, with the participation of priests and lay representatives from close to one hundred parishes. The Synod’s purpose was to reflect on the teaching of the Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia and how to apply it to the … Read more

Asking Pope Francis to Address “Doubts” About ‘Amoris Laetitia’ and Communism

by Luiz Sérgio Solimeo October 2, 2019December 2, 2016

About two years ago, a heated debate started among cardinals, bishops and lay Catholics regarding some points of Catholic doctrine related to morality and the sacraments. Can Persons Living in Adultery Receive Communion? More precisely, the dispute is about whether divorced Catholics living in new civil unions can receive Holy Communion while … Read more

Ellen Organ and “Her Pope”: For Such Is the Kingdom of Heaven

by Norman Fulkerson February 14, 2017November 19, 2016

On August 4, 1903 Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto was elevated to the Chair of Saint Peter and took the name Pius X. Twenty days later William and Mary Organ welcomed their fourth child into the world at the Royal Artillery Barracks in Ireland. They named her Ellen but she would eventually be known … Read more

To Make America Great, Turn Back to God

by The American TFP October 13, 2025November 15, 2016

More than a White House contest between two candidates, the 2016 election was the groundswell of growing discontent over America’s increasingly socialist tone. Now, thanks be to God, the conservative vote won the White House, Senate and House, and a record number of governorships and statehouse majorities. This reality has brought relief … Read more

2016 TFP National Conference: Preparing for the Centennial and America’s Fatima Future

by Vincent Gorre October 21, 2020November 7, 2016

Exactly 197 days before next year’s 100th-year anniversary of Our Lady of Fatima’s apparitions on May 13th, over 300 friends, supporters and members of the American TFP gathered for its annual national conference. It started on Friday, October 28, 2016 with the customary Friday pizza dinner social where attendees from different parts … Read more

The Persecution of the Church in the Soviet Union: A Story That Needs to Be Told

by John Das December 31, 2016November 5, 2016

There is a topic that people seldom mention today. It involves events that took place less than one hundred years ago and dealt a devastating blow to the Catholic Church—the brutal killing of millions of its faithful. This seldom-mentioned topic is the persecution of Christians under the Marxist-Leninist doctrine of militant State … Read more

Saint José Luis Sánchez del Río: Hero for Christ the King

by Elias Rubio July 18, 2017October 16, 2016

Our young saint lived in tumultuous times. The socialist government of Mexico was waging a bloody war against the Catholic Church, and fervent Catholics known as the Cristeros rose up to defend Christ the King. Their heroic resistance, La Cristiada, began in 1926. Background The Mexican constitution of 1917—socialist at its core—sparked … Read more

Answering a Troubling Question: Man, Woman, or Whatever?

by John Horvat II October 27, 2020October 11, 2016

A friend of mine recently rejoiced because he had finally found a job after being unemployed for a few months. It was an engineering job with a good company comparable to the one he had before. However, there was one thing about the final interview that bothered him. He was asked: “What … Read more

Statement on Amoris Laetitia Claims Serious Break with Church Teaching, Dangers to Marriage and the Family

by The American TFP June 15, 2017October 5, 2016

Given the serious reservations and objections of many key Church public figures and Catholic layman to the Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia and given the growing confusion it is sowing in people’s minds regarding family moral issues, the Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira Institute (IPCO), the American TFP’s sister organization in Brazil, felt compelled … Read more

List of Dignitaries Who Signed the Declaration of Fidelity to the Church’s Unchangeable Teaching on Marriage and to Her Uninterrupted Discipline

by The American TFP June 11, 2018September 30, 2016

Until recently, the Catholic Church remained the stronghold of true marriage and family, but errors about these two divine institutions are widespread today in Catholic circles, particularly after the Extraordinary and Ordinary Synods on the family, held in 2014 and 2015, respectively, and the publication of the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia. In the face of this offensive, the undersigned feel morally obliged to declare their resolve to remain faithful to the Church’s unchangeable teachings on morals and on the Sacraments of Marriage, Reconciliation and the Eucharist, and to Her timeless and enduring discipline regarding those Sacraments.