Contents SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2023
The first members of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) campaign at the World Trade Center in New York City in 1973
9 Cover Story Celebrating Half a Century of the American TFP’s Fight for Christian Civilization 4 Interview A Co-Founder’s Chronicles: Interview with Mr. Philip Calder
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Christian Civilization Fighting Communism for Half a Century
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TFP Caravans Five Decades of TFP Caravans
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Nobility Nobility and Analogous Traditional Elites
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Academy Saint Louis de Montfort Academy
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TFP Student Action Fighting the Good Fight with Holy Boldness
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Call to Chivalry Call to Chivalry Camps
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Return to Order Why Return to Order Is More Timely than Ever
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March for Life Defending the Unborn Since 1973
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Pro-Family Initiatives On the Frontlines of the Culture War
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America Needs Fatima Winning the Heart and Soul of America for Our Lady
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Back Cover Rosary Rallies Invoking Our Lady’s Powerful Help
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Interview with a founding member of the American TFP
Where no one else would go: protesting blasphemy for fifty years
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Editor: Michael Gorre Associate Editor: C. Michael Drake Contributing Editors: James Bascom, Ben Broussard, Vincent Gorre, Stacie Hiserman, John Horvat II, Tonia Long, Robert Nunez, Gustavo Solimeo, Luiz Solimeo, Rex Teodosio, Renato Vasconcelos
Staunch defenders of the American flag and the values it represents
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Crusade Magazine is a publication of The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP). Direct all requests and inquiries to: Crusade Magazine, P.O. Box 341, Hanover, PA 17331 or email to: crusade@TFP.org. Web: www. TFP.org, Tel.: (888) 317-5571. © 2023 by The Foundation for a Christian Civilization, Inc. This publication may include images from iStockphoto™ and Dreamstime™ which are protected by copyright laws of the U.S. and elsewhere. ISSN 1096-3782 LCCN 98-641433
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Future warriors are called to chivalry at TFP summer camps
The American TFP The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, and promote the principles of private ownership, Family and Property (TFP) is an organization family and perennial Christian values with their twofold function: individual and social. The TFP’s of lay Catholic Americans concerned about the moral crisis shaking the remnants of Christian words and efforts have always been faithfully at the service of Christian civilization. The first TFP civilization. Its earliest origins date back to January 1971, when the first TFP members started to group was founded in Brazil by the famous intellectual around the publication Crusade for a Christian and Catholic leader Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira in 1960. His work inspired the formation of other Civilization. It is a civic, cultural and nonpartisan organization which, inspired by the traditional autonomous TFP sister organizations across the globe, thus constituting the world’s largest teachings of the Supreme Magisterium of the 3 C r u s a d e S e p t e m b e r / O c t o b e r 2 0 2 3 n w w w . T F P . O R G Roman Catholic Church, works in a legal and anticommunist and anti-socialist network of peaceful manner in the realm of ideas to defend Catholic inspiration.
