In the early 1800s a large portion of the Portuguese aristocracy fled Portugal in the face of the conquering Napoleonic armies.
The heir to the Portuguese throne officially moved the seat of the Portuguese monarchy to the colonial capital of Rio de Janeiro and proclaimed himself Emperor of Brazil.
He and his associates and relatives recreated an Old World style court and aristocracy in the New World and it had a profound cultural impact on Brazilian society - add to the royalty and aristocracy the fact that 75% of the Brazilian population lived according to the manorial system of tenant farmers and actual serfs and you have the society of medieval Europe replicated in miniature in 1820s Brazil.
It's also unusual to see a far right wing organization that blatantly supports the rich against the poor.
It's more complex than that - a TFPer will have greater respect for a cultured layabout who scrounges off friends and associates as long as he goes to Mass and can document his family connection to the Habsburgs than they will for a wealthy Catholic who built a multimillion dollar fortune in plumbing supply.
It's more complex than that - a TFPer will have greater respect for a cultured layabout who scrounges off friends and associates as long as he goes to Mass and can document his family connection to the Habsburgs than they will for a wealthy Catholic who built a multimillion dollar fortune in plumbing supply.
They must be among those awaiting a temporal messiah (for which they condemn the Jews) among the Habsburgs.
I neglected one important point. To these particular kind of rightwing Catholics Catholicism seems inseparable from the European establishment. What do they make of the church of the martyrs before Constantine? Fundamentalist Protestants (and surprisingly, Malachi Martin) tend to look on that church as the purest while these TFP types barely seem to acknowledge its existence.