The American TFP

Soldiers Don’t Fight So Protesters Can Burn Flags

by John Horvat II December 15, 2020December 6, 2016

Protesters are burning and trampling upon the American flag again. When veterans counter-protest against this behavior, some people suggest that they should not protest saying soldiers die so that others might have the freedom to burn the flag in the public square. This “soldiers-die-so-protesters-can-burn-flags” slogan has become a mantra repeated everywhere. Many … Read more

Did God Give America a Great Reprieve?

by John Horvat II October 25, 2020November 23, 2016

To those Americans concerned about the moral state of the nation, the immediate reaction to the November 8 elections was one of enormous relief. It was as if a colossal amount of pressure was suddenly released. There was the thrill of something entirely unexpected. People were overjoyed beyond words. Adding to the … 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 May 24, 2017November 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

A Time to Honor Veterans Who Put Others Before Self

by Norman Fulkerson April 28, 2017November 10, 2016

This never-give-up attitude was on full display with the opening evening’s Wounded Warriors Experience. Staff Sergeant Spencer Milo spoke very candidly of the traumatic brain injury he suffered in Iraq in 2008, when a young child was used as a suicide bomber. He was only 23 years old when doctors misdiagnosed him … Read more

What Does Love of Country Mean Today?

by James Bascom January 2, 2017November 8, 2016

We Americans are a people who are justifiably proud of our nation’s many heroes and achievements. Our history is full of great explorers, soldiers, statesmen, clergy, and civic leaders—George Washingtonian characters—who accomplished great deeds. Their legacy is a long, unbroken line of service, sacrifice, and honor that gives substance to our Fourth … Read more

“Long Live Christ the King!” Young Mexican, Authentic Model of a Catholic Hero

by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira June 22, 2021October 17, 2016

“Long Live Christ the King!” Young Mexican, Martyr of Communism, Authentic Model of a Catholic Hero “Long live Christ the King!” Such was the cry that opened the gates of Heaven and eternal glory to many blessed during the Catholic resistance in the Mexico of the twenties. The Cristero martyrs shouted it … 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

The Miracle on Seventh Avenue: When Planned Parenthood Apologized

by John Horvat II October 27, 2020October 13, 2016

When the videos exposing the dealing in baby body parts came out last year, many of us thought Planned Parenthood’s time had come. Surely, Congress and the states would act upon what appeared to be indisputable evidence of wrongdoing. Surely, the mammoth abortion provider would be defunded, and its reputation irreparably destroyed among … 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.

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