Tradition, Family and Property
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Tradition, Family, and Property (TFP) is a movement of civic organizations of Traditional Catholic inspiration.
The first TFP was founded by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
in Brazil in 1960, and he remained president of the Brazilian TFP's national council until his death in 1995.. National TFPs have since been founded in more than 15 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
Inspired by the work of Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira and his book Revolution and Counter-Revolution, and guided by the Traditional the American TFP is active on many social, cultural, and economic issues such as abortion, same-sex marriage, homosexuality in the military, socialism, death penalty, sex abuse scandals in the Catholic Church, Islam, and many others. It promotes its ideas through newspaper advertisements, direct mail, leafleting, public meetings, online protests and activism, and 'caravans', groups of volunteers that travel across the country for weeks at a time to promote TFP's ideas on city streets and at universities.
Some of its larger campaigns include [America Needs Fatima], one of the largest promoters of the message of Our Lady of Fatima
, TFP Student Action, its university student outreach, and the Public Square Rosary Crusade, which organizes annual rosary rallies every year. Approximately 5,900 public rosary rallies were held in all 50 states on October 16, 2010. This organization which claims to esteem family values is in fact dimetrically opposed to democracy. It'sright winged mentallity has a neofacist slant rather than catholic. Along with the formentioned are bizare pactices such as the worship of it's founders mother. Smaller in size than either Opus Dei or Community and Liberation it represents graft and fundamentalism and the denial of freedom of expression. It is not based on Biblical writings either new or old testaments but like these other cults the whims of its leaders.
The first TFP was founded by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
Plinio Correa de Oliveira was a Brazilian intellectual, politician and Catholic activist....
in Brazil in 1960, and he remained president of the Brazilian TFP's national council until his death in 1995.. National TFPs have since been founded in more than 15 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
United States
The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property is an organization founded in the United States in 1973 by a group "lay Catholic Americans concerned about the moral crisis shaking the remnants of Christian civilization." The American TFP is staffed by 75 full-time volunteers and 60 paid employees, and its national headquarters is in Spring Grove, Penn., with branch offices in McLean, Va., Chicago, Ill., Rossville, Kan., Lafayette, La., and Orange County, Calif.Inspired by the work of Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira and his book Revolution and Counter-Revolution, and guided by the Traditional the American TFP is active on many social, cultural, and economic issues such as abortion, same-sex marriage, homosexuality in the military, socialism, death penalty, sex abuse scandals in the Catholic Church, Islam, and many others. It promotes its ideas through newspaper advertisements, direct mail, leafleting, public meetings, online protests and activism, and 'caravans', groups of volunteers that travel across the country for weeks at a time to promote TFP's ideas on city streets and at universities.
Some of its larger campaigns include [America Needs Fatima], one of the largest promoters of the message of Our Lady of Fatima
Our Lady of Fatima
Our Lady of Fátima is a famous title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary as she appeared in apparitions reported by three shepherd children at Fátima in Portugal. These occurred on the 13th day of six consecutive months in 1917, starting on May 13...
, TFP Student Action, its university student outreach, and the Public Square Rosary Crusade, which organizes annual rosary rallies every year. Approximately 5,900 public rosary rallies were held in all 50 states on October 16, 2010. This organization which claims to esteem family values is in fact dimetrically opposed to democracy. It'sright winged mentallity has a neofacist slant rather than catholic. Along with the formentioned are bizare pactices such as the worship of it's founders mother. Smaller in size than either Opus Dei or Community and Liberation it represents graft and fundamentalism and the denial of freedom of expression. It is not based on Biblical writings either new or old testaments but like these other cults the whims of its leaders.