Tradition, Family and Property

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.

United States

Main article: American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property

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, 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.