Apologia for a Catholic Counter-Revolutionary

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""""[vc_column_text] “When still very young, I marveled at the ruins of Christendom and gave them my heart. I turned my back on all I could expect and made of that past, so full of blessings, my future.” With these words taken from an address made by the Brazilian jurist and eminent conservative … Read more

Christmas without Apologies

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On December 16, around 140 local supporters, friends and neighbors of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) braved the hostile weather to attend for the annual Christmas Open House at the group’s national headquarters in Spring Grove, Pennsylvania. The event has long held a place on … Read more

What Are They Doing To Attract A Crowd Like This One?

What Are They Doing To Attract A Crowd Like This One?

When it comes to the apostolate, the primary concern of many reformers seems to be how to attract multitudes to the Church. The twentieth-century, more than any of the preceding ones, can be called the century of the multitudes. Everywhere multitudes gather — and for every reason: political rallies, sports games, rock … Read more

The Devil’s False Promise of Happiness

This scene is from the island of Ischia, in Italy, after a storm. Nature has recovered her cheerful appearance and an elderly peasant woman accompanied by her children – perhaps her grandchildren – walks up a hillside. The road is not made of asphalt, nor is it lined with movie theaters, cafes, … Read more

Dignity and Distinction for Both Great and Small

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Sir Winston Churchill – born of an American mother and an English father – reached the apex of human greatness in his country, and attained it deservedly by his exceptional talents, the unusual scope of his personality, and the merit of the many services he rendered his country during the course of … Read more

2007 TFP National Conference: Looking at Fatima After 90 Years

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Ninety years after Fatima is a long time. The changes that have occurred since then have been monumental to say the least. From the Fatima perspective, however, these changes have largely seen a world that has not heeded Our Lady’s message. A look at this world was the theme of a weekend … Read more

TFP Call to Chivalry Camp: Where Boys Become Catholic Gentlemen

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In Kenelm Henry Digby’s book, The Broad-Stone of Honor, the following definition of chivalry is offered: “Chivalry is only a name for that general spirit or state of mind which disposes men to heroic actions, and keeps them conversant with all that is beautiful and sublime in the intellectual and moral world.” … Read more

XXI Century Crusade

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Medieval Crusaders shed their blood to free the Sepulcher of Our Lord Jesus Christ from the hands of the infidels and to establish a Christian kingdom in the Holy Land. Today the blood of Catholics still flows — in Communist China, the Sudan, Cuba, and many other countries where religious persecutions continue … Read more

Defending a Higher Law Published in Latvia

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On May 24, feast of Our Lady Help of Christians, Mr. Piotr Kucharski and Mr. Valdis Grinsteins, representatives of the Polish TFP, joined Cardinal Janis Pujats at the Chancellery Office of Riga at the official launching of a Latvian language edition of the American TFP’s hard-hitting book Defending A Higher Law: Why … Read more