Keeping the Covenant: Moral America Throngs to Washington

Keeping the Covenant: Moral America Throngs to Washington

The first thing that hits you at the March for Life in Washington, D.C. is a veritable sea of people that just keeps arriving on the scene. You see busload after busload offloading and streaming into the massive crowds that fill the Mall, the streets and the sidewalks. Americans of every age … Read more

Garcia Moreno: Heroic President of Ecuador

Garcia Moreno, President of Ecuador, Writes to His Holiness Blessed Pius IX 1

Manly Catholic of intransigent principles, slain by the enemies of the Faith because of his consistency and courage in defense of the Church and Papacy Gabriel Garcia Moreno was born in Guayaquil, in southern Ecuador on December 24, 1821. His father, Gabriel Garcia Gómez was Spanish, while his mother, Doña Mercedes Moreno, … Read more

March for Life: Braving the Storm, Come What May

An Appeal for Insistence - 2010 5

A cold penetrating rain poured down on the night before the March for Life. No doubt many anti-abortion Americans looked at the bleak weather forecast and wondered what the next day’s march would bring. Some might have even hesitated. It is in dreary times not sunshine when the true caliber and dedication … Read more

Letter to the President – 2004

The Honorable George W. Bush President of the United States of America The White House 1600Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear Mr. President: On behalf of the American TFP’s directors, members and supporters I congratulate you for Tuesday’s election victory. In this election, America’s moral and cultural configuration was at stake … Read more

American TFP Applauds Presidential Support

American TFP Applauds Presidential Support

Following his February 24 announcement supporting a constitutional amendment, the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) sent a letter to President Bush, expressing its congratulations for his stand against same-sex “marriage.” While realizing that this measure will not stop “civil unions,” the American TFP believes it “removes … Read more

What They Are Saying About Defending a Higher Law

Pope Francis: A Paradigm Shift in the Church’s Position on Homosexual Sin? 2

“The paper is written with impeccable logic in virtually every section. In some ways, it almost reads like a modern format of the Summa Theologica where the opponent’s arguments are laid out and then refuted. The authors are fully in conformity with the teachings of the Church and argue for the Church’s … Read more

Letter to the President – 2003

Letter to the President - 2003 2

The following letter was sent to President George W. Bush: December 19, 2003 VIA FACSIMILE The Honorable George W. Bush President of the United States The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington D.C. 20500 Dear Mr. President: On behalf of the American TFP I would like to thank you for all … Read more

Soldiers Are Not Terrorists!

Soldiers Are Not Terrorists!

The following letters were sent to President George W. Bush and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.   The Honorable George W. Bush President of the United States The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington D.C. 20500 Dear Mr. President: On behalf of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family … Read more

A Victim for the Twentieth Century

A Victim for the Twentieth Century

During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries there lived in Quito, Ecuador, a Spanish nun whose little-known but extraordinary life has a direct connection with our days. Mother Mariana of Jesus Torres y Berriochoa, a nun of the Conceptionist Order, surpassed the already strict discipline of her congregation in the traditional penances she … Read more

What They Say About The American TFP

President Ronald Reagan writes to the American TFP.

“I could not agree with you more on the need to take the Fatima message to Catholics across the world. Your campaign to bring devotions into homes and rekindle religious practice there is commendable.” John Cardinal O’Connor Archbishop of New York “For many years it has been my privilege to work closely … Read more