The socially conservative network called Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) refers to a set of interrelated conservative, Catholic-inspired organisations which share a common world view inspired by the TFP founder, Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira.

Originating in Brazil in 1960 and eventually spreading throughout the world, TFP has long been an insurrection movement within Catholicism, with a distinct way of working by fusing social conservatism with economic hyper-liberalism and a legacy of complicity with far-right movements. Having withered away from Latin America, TFP is now an active European network with positions against sexual and reproductive rights (SRR) among its priorities.

TFP’s influence on SRR takes three main routes: social mobilisation; norm entrepreneur and entering decision-making spaces. TFP has found new horizons in Eastern Europe and has ambitions to influence the European Union and the United Nations. The reactionary narrative of TFP espousing religious orthodoxy and sanctifying economic inequality could become attractive to some by offering religious legitimisation for illiberalism and authoritarianism.

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