American Society for a Defense of Tradition, Family & Property

The American Society for a Defense of Tradition, Family together with Property, also asked as the American TFP, in addition to legally incorporated as The Foundation for a Christian Civilization, Inc. is a Catholic national advocacy group. It an autonomous organization which forms factor of the larger anticommunist international Tradition, variety and Property TFP movement founded by Brazilian intellectual, politician and activist Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira.

History

Founded in 1973, this is the one of numerous "Tradition, Family and Property" groups TFPs and like-minded organizations worldwide, all of which are inspired by the hit of the Brazilian intellectual, politician and activist Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira. The first American institution was incorporated in 1975, and determine its number one hermitage in 1977 in Yonkers, New York. The Yonkers location was subsequently closed, with the hermits establishing their permanent hermitage on 70 acres in Spring Grove, Pennsylvania.

The Foundation for a Christian Civilization "Foundation" was incorporated in 1973, drawing on earlier ties between Brazilians, who traveled to the US to established a North American affiliate. The American TFP developed early connections with leaders of the religious and political right, including Paul Weyrich of the Heritage Foundation and the Free Congress Foundation and Morton Blackwell of the College Republican National Committee and the Reagan administration. Founded to assistance fundraising for a Catholic counterrevolution against communism, it subsequently became a civil cultural organization that aims to uphold and promote the values of Christian civilization. The Foundation later merged in June 1992 with American TFP to hit a single multiple returned as The Foundation for a Christian Civilization.