The American TFP has been combating public blasphemy and sacrilege since 1978. In that year, it’s first public protest was against a Planned Parenthood pamphlet which contained a horrible caricature of the Blessed Virgin Mary. A crowd of 1,500 Catholics gathered in front of Planned Parenthood’s offices in New York and Planned Parenthood issued an official letter of apology. From that time, the TFP has organized dozens of protests against blasphemies involving art exhibits, plays, movies, cartoons and books. In recent years, the TFP has organized rallies in reparation for satanic black masses performed in Oklahoma and blasphemous Broadway shows and art exhibits in New York City.
At an institute of “higher learning.” one would expect high standards. However, this is not the case at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) which is staging the play The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told. In reply, the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) and its America … Read more
Many of us buy wall calendars but after casually flipping through the pictures the first two weeks of the year we tend to forget them. Ozzy Osbourne’s latest extravagant effort, a family calendar, is hard to forget. The front cover displays the vulgarity and crudeness for which he is so known. A … Read more
The American press announced reports about The Virgin Mary, a British Broadcasting Company (BBC) “documentary” insulting the virginity of Our Lady shortly before Christmas. The pseudo-documentary explored three alternatives to the Incarnation of the Word, the perpetual virginity of Mary Most Holy, and the virgin birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ. “The … Read more
The highly-offensive movie The Crime of Father Amaro was supposedly a success in Mexico but it seems to be falling flat in America. Everywhere it goes it is meeting with protests, prayer and…cancellations. The Crime of Father Amaro portrays a priest who has relations with a 16 year-old girl under a robe … Read more
Throwing mud at the Catholic Church has become fashionable. Whether it be blasphemous artwork, insulting movies or sacrilegious plays, open anti-Catholicism is wide-spread and ever present. Convinced that this is due to Catholics failing to stand up for their beliefs, three full-time volunteers of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, … Read more
There are worse films showing in the nation’s theaters. However, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys is symptomatic of our times. Here is an R-rated film about two altar boys at a Catholic school who lose their innocence and create problems for their teacher, Sister Assumpta, whom they portray in a comic … Read more
When a few dozen protesters appeared in front of Boston’s Catholic Cathedral to protest local scandals, major media coverage could not have been greater. However, when over two hundred protesters appeared on the same weekend on a media giant’s doorstep, reporters were hard to find. Tragically, Catholics have come to expect such … Read more
It seems major media cannot offend Catholics enough. ABC recently aired graphic sexual insults against God and jokes about the virgin birth of Jesus, the Church and the Eucharist on the Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher show. In response, the American TFP and its affiliate campaign America Needs Fatima announced a massive … Read more
The city of Napa is traditionally known as California’s leading wine center. Now it is known for what Catholics across the country consider blasphemous anti-Catholic “art” displays. For this reason, the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) with its America Needs Fatima campaign organized a protest of … Read more
What Napa Valley’s the American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts (COPIA) calls “art,” Catholics across the country consider blasphemy and sacrilege against the Catholic Church and everything it holds sacred. To protest, the American TFP and its affiliate campaign, America Needs Fatima, announced a March 17 rally of protest … Read more