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A Challenge to Our Lady of Fatima

February 12, 2010
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By Luiz Sérgio Solimeo
The Portuguese parliament’s approval of same-sex “marriage” on January 8 is shocking for many reasons.
A Challenge to Our Lady of Fatima
First, the fact itself legalizes a practice aberrant to nature and also discredits marriage. Then, this law was passed in the land of

The faithful gather for the 90th anniversary of [...]

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The Message of Fatima, the Errors of Russia and the Treaty of Lisbon

September 11, 2009
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Perhaps it is a coincidence that, at the time of the apparitions of Our Lady in the small Portuguese village of Fatima, the capital of Portugal was considered to be the most atheistic city on earth. And certainly the Portuguese government of the time provided an immense challenge to the spreading of the Message of [...]

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Revisiting the Treaty of Lisbon

September 2, 2009
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In the wake of last year’s referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon, the whole world, and especially the Europhile academia tried to figure out why this nation of superstitious peasants couldn’t just do what we were told and vote “Yes.” Our media and the opposition parties blamed the government, as if the government could have [...]

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Nine Reasons Why a Conscientious Catholic Citizen Should Reject the Treaty of Lisbon

August 31, 2009
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The violation of non-negotiable principles raises a grave question of conscience for Irish Catholics
Irish Catholic lay people cannot remain neutral about the Treaty of Lisbon. The texts proposed for our approval violate, among other things, the three non-negotiable values that Pope Benedict XVI underlined in a recent speech to representatives of an important European political [...]

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XXI Century Crusade

August 24, 2009
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Medieval Crusaders shed their blood to free the Sepulchre 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 to claim the lives [...]

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The Allure of Lourdes

August 9, 2009
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by John Horvat
As I sat down in the train for the final leg of my trip to Lourdes, I could not help but reflect that this was a trip repeated so many times by tens of millions of pilgrims from all over the world over the last 150 years. They had made this same trip. [...]

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Lisbon: The Nation Devouring Hydra

August 4, 2009
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On July 15, The Irish Times published an opinion piece written by Green Party Senator and Spokeswoman, Déirdre de Búrca titled: “Lisbon Yes will make EU fit for global challenges.”  In it, she argues that The Lisbon Treaty is essential to empower the European Union so it can act effectively on the global scene.
Her opinion [...]

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Interview with Robert Spencer: Explaining the Islamist Threat

July 3, 2009
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American TFP member Richard Lyon interviewed Robert Spencer, a noted expert on Islamic affairs and author of several books. Mr. Lyon asked him to address the nature of Islam and the different strategies and tactics it uses in the West.
TFP: Both as a specialist in Islam and as a Catholic, could you explain what [...]

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The Beauty of Life in Social Relationships

June 27, 2009
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Written by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
Old magazines are often very charming. This is true even when what comes down to us are only loose undated pages that give us glimpses of the remote past.
A Paris journal of the last century, L ‘Illustration, carried an article, “Customs of the Café Valois,” written by A. de Belloy, [...]

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