Tradition, Family and Property
The Sociedade Brasileira de Defesa because Tradição, Família e propriedade (TFP ) ( German: Brazilian Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and private property ) is a Brazilian conservative Catholic organization imprinting. In other countries, organizations were founded with corresponding names and goals.
History
The TFP was by journalist Plinio Correa de Oliveira, together with Archbishop Geraldo de Proença Sigaud among others founded in 1960. Correa de Oliveira and Archbishop Sigaud, along with Bishop Antonio de Castro Mayer and the economist Luiz Mendonça de Freitas wrote in 1960 the book Reforma Agraria: Questão de Consciência ( German: Land reform: A question of conscience ). This book took a stand against the then -standing debate in Brazil for land reform and argued on the basis of the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church by Pope Gregory XVI. to John XXIII. The TFP spread the book and took the country participated in the debates on this subject. Thus, the TFP belonged to the conservative wing of the deeply divided and politicized Brazilian Catholicism in the 1960s. The confrontation with the land reform remained for decades the main theme of TFP. On this theme, several books have been published. TFP also participated by several publications position against liberation theology, for example, by the books Tribalismo Indígena, ideal comuno - missionário para o Brazil no Século XXI. (1977 ) and As CEBs: The quais se fala muito, pouco se conhece (1982). According to the Instruction on Certain Aspects of the "Theology of Liberation" of the CDF on 14 September 1984, the debate subsided, however the land reform remained on the political agenda. In 1990, the then-existing PFPs collected a record number of 5.21852 million signatures supporting the independence movement in Lithuania worldwide. After the death of Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira in 1995, there was a split. Since then, the Brazilian TFP is separated from the TFP groups from other countries and largely inactive.
Other countries
Outside of Brazil the same organizations were founded, partly with significantly different activity priorities. Nowadays, especially the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property active. Associations with corresponding names exist in Germany and since 1999 in Austria. These clubs but since the split will not work with the Sociedade Brasileira de Defesa because Tradição, Família e propriedade together, but with the " Fundadores " in Brazil.