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.
Nearly two thousand Catholics gathered in front of New York City’s Lincoln Center to express their outrage at the controversial film, Dogma’s October 4 debut at the New York Film Festival. It was the first of the many protests organized by the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property … Read more
Thousands of Catholics voice their outrage over the blasphemous play Corpus Christi. When playwright Terrence McNally first conceived the idea of portraying the Second Person of the Holy Trinity as a homosexual in his blasphemous play Corpus Christi, he probably did not expect that it would provoke such a substantial protest as … Read more
1997 – Last fall the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles exhibited a statue of Our Lady of Grace with a drain pipe through her womb and standing on a grate under which were human limbs in offensive positions. Promotional literature on the exhibit stated that “Robert Gober’s sterile Virgin Mary … Read more
1988 – Slightly more than two years after releasing Hail Mary, Universal Studios launched The Last Temptation of Christ. This film portrayed the Sacred Person of Our Lord as a man unsure of his mission, a man full of fears and inhibitions, a common sinner who was tempted by Mary Magdalen and … Read more
ON THE VERGE OF A PUBLIC BLASPHEMY! The American TFP Launches a Fervent Appeal — An Open Letter to Universal Pictures Concerning the Film The Last Temptation of Christ To: Universal Pictures Gentlemen: FOR SOME TIME NOW, reports have circulated about the production of the film, The Last Temptation of … Read more