In 1994, TFP founder Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira denounced a top-down effort by authorities in the Catholic Church and civil society to impose same-sex "marriage." With Catholic moral teaching on homosexuality being clear and irreformable, he could see this authoritarian action triggering a split: “Then there will be an internal clash within the Church, and this internal shock will produce one of the greatest upheavals in history.” The Breached Dam by José A. Ureta and Julio Loredo shows how and why the Vatican's recent Fiducia supplicans declaration hastened the coming clash.
