Sounds like a description of controlled opposition.

Let's not forget that TFP, along with the founder of offshoot TIA, were outed by a whistleblower as a secret society that worshipped Plinio de Oliveira and "consecrated" themselves to him in a mockery of the Catholic Consecration to Our Lady.

The following article is taken from La Tradizione Cattolica , new series, Year IX, n. 38-1998, reproducing the deposition of the TFP affiliate Luiz Filipe de Freitas Guimaraes Abias, Curitiba, 24 August 1984.

The statement was registered in the Public Archives (August 24, 1984) and published on March 14, 1985 by "Folha da Manha"; Campos, RJ, Brazil.

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I, the undersigned, Filipe de Freitas Guimarães Ablas, RG (General Register) 3,706,587, SP, unmarried, resident in Curitiba (Brazil), C.so Manoel Ribas, no. 418, I declare to be true that, when I belonged to the TFP, Brazilian Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property, in 1967 I entered a secret society of that association, called "Sacra Slavitù", also known by its members as "Always Living ".
The members of this secret society have made a consecration of themselves as slaves of Doctor Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira The existence of "Sacred Slavery" could not be communicated to the other members of the TFP,
The first twelve slaves were:

1) Caio Vidigal Xavier da Silveira - slave Mário Pliny. 2) Eduardo Barros Brotero - Pliny Eduardo slave. 3) Luiz Nazareno d'Assunpção Filho - slave Pliny Luiz. 4) João Scognamiglio Clà Dias - slave Pliny Fernando. 5) Humberto Braccese - slave Plinio Cirineu. 6) Fernando Siqueira - Bernardo slave. 7) Carlos Espírito Hofmeister Poli -slave Plinio José. 8) Marcos Ribeiro Dantes - Pliny Paulo slave. 9) Mário Navarro da Costa - slave Pliny Elias. 10) Dom Bertrand de Orleans and Bragança - slave Plinio Miguel. 11) Atila Sinke Guimarães - slave Plinio Márcio. 12) Cosme Beccar Varella Hijo-slave Plinio Lázaro.

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Excellent question Meg. The short answer is that they are not Catholic. As the letter of Bishop Meyer points out, they are an "anti-Catholic, anti-clerical, heretical sect."

The TFP is clearly "controlled opposition" and has a known history of working with the CIA in South America. When I have time, I'll find the letter from TFP to the CIA, offering their services in gun-running and other aspects of warfare. TFP was also involved in cнιℓd тrαffιcking, not sex trafficking, but moving children to other nations to hide them from their parents (who trustingly perceived TFP as a trustworthy Lay Catholic Organization.)

Lower-level members believe they are part of a lay Catholic group. Only at the top level of the inner circle are the disgusting facts known. (Similar to how the Freemasons and other secret societies work).

As lower-level members work their way up, they discover that in TFP-land, Our Lord and Our Lady are insigificant. The ones who are worshipped are Plinio and his mother. They pray to him and to her. They make public confessions to him (a layperson). In a mockery of Our Lady, they say a litany to the mother of Plinio and also worship at her grave.

It's well worth anyone's time to go back read the thread. Of note, the founder of TIA (which pretends to have separated from TFP) is Plinio Slave # 11, docuмented by an eye-witness. Atila has never disavowed his worship of Plinio.

It is well-docuмented that John Hovart co-heads the U.S. TFP, while his sister Marian Hovart co-heads TIA. One former member of TFP says that the saying aroung the TFP office is "When TFP needs money, America Needs Fatima." ANF is a money-making project of TFP, posing as a Novus Ordo group.

Why is it that very few members of TFP attend Mass on Sunday? Do they believe that there's something wrong with the Old Mass? Or is it Roman Catholic Catholicism that they have a problem with?

Don't trust her information.  She tends to exaggerate and makes stuff up because she has a personal ax to grind against the TFP.  Nobody "worships" Plinio.  What's left of the TFP in the US anyway are not anti-clerical either.now changed to p. 37

You have a good point, which also explains why those who see themselves as their defenders so quickly sink into the bottomless pit of name-calling.

Undecided, rational people who like to hear all sides would love to hear convincing responses.

John Lamb, a poster who was here on CI ages ago made a post which I am unable to find using the search box. He cited this from TIA, written by Atila:

"The great Moses with his burning bush on the top of Sinai does not make me jealous. For if he were there with God for 40 days, I have been with Dr. Plinio for 33 years. And in this relationship I see, perhaps, more of the divine presence than he before the sacred bush."

https://www.traditioninaction.org/HotTopics/Internet_Files/F142_Defense_Eng.pdf
originally on p. 36
now changed to p. 37

"Hail, Luigi Plinio Elia ( official name of Doctor Pliny in Sacred Slavery ), full of love and hate, the Most Holy Virgin is with you you are blessed among the faithful, and the fruit of your love and your hate, which is the Counter-ʀɛʋ ʟutι n, is blessed. O Sacral Luigi Plinio Elia, admirable and most Catholic father of the Counter-ʀɛʋ ʟutι n and the Kingdom of Mary, pray for us lame (capen gas) and sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen ".