Crusade Magazine, Vol. 185, September/October, 2023 - 1973–2023: Celebrating Half a Century of the American TFP’s Fight for Christian Civilization.
Fifty years ago, on May 18, 1973, The Foundation for a Christian Civilization, Inc.—the corporate name of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP)—filed articles of incorporation with New York’s Department of State, and became established as a nonprofit organization.
A few months later, the Internal Revenue Service recognized the new organization’s 501(c)(3) charitable organization status.
With this 1973 legal filing, the handful of concerned American Catholics who had gathered informally around the publication Crusade for a Christian Civilization to defend the principles of tradition, family, and property—essential mainstays of a Christian order—adopted a corporate structure for purposes of civil law.
As the years rolled by, many would join the ranks of the TFP’s spiritual crusade. However, Crusade’s first issue in January
