2010-12 - About the lives of great men, there are always many who tell their stories. No doubt this will be true of the great Catholic intellectual Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira about whom much has already been written. Andrea F. Phillips’
Plinio: A Man for Our Times is a delightful addition to defining this man.
2011-07 - Plinio Corrêa de
Oliveira: The Crusader of the Twentieth Century - I
2011-09 - Plinio Corrêa de
Oliveira: The Crusader of the Twentieth Century - II
2011-09 - Plinio Corrêa de
Oliveira: The Crusader of the Twentieth Century - III
1968-10-23 - The Afflictions of the Third Family (The sensation of chaos assails us everywhere in our daily lives. We see people at every moment whose actions today contradict those of yesterday, and will also contradict those of tomorrow. It is increasingly rare to find persons all of whose thoughts, words and actions consistently follow several fundamental principles. Evaluating this scenario, people can be classified into three principal families of souls)
1969-02-26 - The Problem of the Four
Brothers ("To lay claim to an absolute equality of all would be the same as to pretend to give identical functions to the diverse members of the same
organism")
1970-04-05 - NOTHING
LEARNED, NOTHING FORGOTTEN (The perfect code of human conduct is in the Ten Commandments of the Law of God. If all men were to follow this Law fully, all of man's ideological and moral problems would be resolved. If, on the contrary, all men fully violate this Law, humanity will not be long in destroying itself)
1970-12-27 - Stop and See
(There is no happiness equal to this, not even when the Catholic finds himself, like Jesus Christ Our Lord, nailed to the Cross)
1971-03-14 - The Hoax Of Atheistic Communism(Arianism, semi-Arianism - The Catholic circles imbued with comunist influences)
1976-11-12 - On Pilgrimage Within a Gaze(the statue of Our Lady of Fatima that shed tears in New Orleans because of the sins of mankind and the chastisements that men are calling upon themselves)
1978-08-16 -
Clarity / What will the new Pope think about the "self-destruction" of
the Church and the "smoke of Satan"? / The immense majority of the Catholics
wants immediately and first of all, clarity / What could be more just, more
logical, more filial, and more noble than the sons of light turning to that man
to whom it was said: “Thou are Peter and upon this rock I will build My Church,”
to ask him for clarity?
1978-10-04 - At Mrs. Edeltrudes’
(The French Revolution, Bishop Pedro Casaldáliga of São Félix do Araguaia, the Bastille, the Holy Inquisitors and the wall that communist Germany just finished building from the Baltic to
Czechoslovakia)
1979-11-28 - THE IRANIAN GAME(the invasion and seizure of hostages in the U.S. Embassy in Teheran by fanatical students, Carter, the Soviet Leviathan, Our Lady of Fatima)
1980-02-08 - The Lullaby Revel Didn't Mention
(the Soviet lullaby and the Catholic opinion - Pius XI, Pius XII, John XXIII, Paul VI, Vatican Council II, Jacques Maritain)
1980-04-27 - Free Access To
Embassies, The Decisive Test (Cuba: the situation of the unfortunate 10,000 refugees in the Peruvian embassy - Why Carter has still done nothing to dismantle the dictatorship of Cuban extremism?)
1980-08-12 - BACK TO THE TOWER OF BABEL ? (St. Louis Maria Grignion de Montfort shows the lives of the peoples above all as a grand, tragic and incessant war between truth and error, good and evil, beauty and ugliness)
1980-11-17 - Conscientize, Conscientize…(The defeat of Carter and the victory of Reagan - The poor are giving the leftist rich a very great lesson in common sense)
1981-02-12 - Convergence and Psychological Warfare (The communism and the most modern and efficacious of weapons: revolutionary psychological warfare - peaceful coexistence, useful innocents, fellow travelers, the policy of the extended hand, ping pong diplomacy, detente and now the Polish model)
1981-02-23 - Water, Fire and Flower
(for many religious, historical, ethnic, and geographical reasons Poland of itself merits special respect and affection from all Catholics. Consequently, current events there should attract everyone's attention - Warsaw communist government, the episcopate and "Solidarity")
1981-03-13 - LIVING TABLEAUX – EXPLOSIONS
(According to the Polish Army paper "Zolnierz Wolnosci" some Catholic priests affirm that there is a betrayal on the part of Cardinal Wyszinski, who is playing a game in complicity with the communists. Is this an invention? - The Kremlin and Eurocommunism - Suspense on the Brazilian scene)
1981-04-08 - WHAT NEXT ? (While a certain degree of cunning is required of the spy, much more is required of the deviator. His mission is to infiltrate the core of the opposing party, sow factors of division, propose wrong maneuvers, and foment the discouragement arising from reverses. I tremble for "Solidarity" in Poland as I think of this)
1981-05-09 - BE CONSISTENT
(On the night of last April 12th, a strong reddish glare, also seen with shades of green, orange, and light yellow, illuminated the skies of the United States. The night became so bright that cars could drive with their headlights off. Is it a new sign to humanity whose impenitence continues to affront Our Lady of Fatima?)
1981-10-05 - The War of the Aspergillum (Farmers, beware! Brazil, beware! Strangers will take your possessions. You will not be touched by the classic scythe of death, but swept by the iron broom of confiscation)
1982-03-12 - THOMAS DA POVOA TEACHES (Now, hasn't the past pushed aside the noble-plebian issue? Upon considering the immediate reality, almost everything would say so. But what about the problem equality-inequality, which is more alive than ever in the false antithesis property-labor)
1982-04-02 - IN
ALLENDE'S FOOTSTEPS? (the spectacular victory of the center-right bloc over the socialist-communist bloc in the regional elections in France)
1982-07-01 - Just for Essequibo?
(The Falkland case, the crisis over the islands on the Beagle channel, Essequibo: would it not be that Moscow is behind all this to aggravate, embitter and infect the quarrels between neighboring peoples, who could so well resolve them in a peaceful way, or postpone them until better days?)
1982-11-04 - The Galliard of Don John of Austria
(the results of the recent Spanish elections: the most important thing that happened was the disbanding of the center, which split into two parts)
1983-03-26 - PLATO IN THE UNION
(The mediocre man has no idea that his superficiality can have profound effects - The sowers of tyranny profit from the typhoon of demo-mediocrity - Plato: the radicals of liberalism in a democracy, the true fathers of dictatorship)
1983-10-16 - THE
TOADS... FOR HOW MUCH LONGER THE TOADS?
("better red than dead": the meaning of that slogan is that earthly life is man's supreme good. Whence all the martyrs and all the soldiers who heretofore understood the contrary are imbeciles)
1984-02-22 - St. Thomas Aquinas and the Socialists
(Spanish socialism, like its French counterpart, strives to destroy the family in every possible way. Divorce, the "depenalization" of homosexuality and of abortion in many circumstances, and the promotion of contraception are key points in the PSOE's activity)
1984-07-09 - IRREDUCIBILITY AND CUNNING
(Alessandro Natta, the secretary General of the Italian Communist Party affirmed, in an interview requested by Vatican Radio, that he did not see the Catholic Faith as an "obstacle," but on the contrary, a "possible point of support" for the "perspectives" that, in his judgment, the Italian Communist Party (PCI) and the Catholic Church have in common - The famous decree of 1949, approved by Pius XII, in which the Holy Office declared excommunicates and apostates from the Catholic Faith all those who profess, defend or spread communist doctrine - Irreducibility of faith and love of God will conquer the cunning of revolutionary hatred)
1984-12-10 - The Fire
Hose, a Wish, and Duty (the Instruction on Certain Aspects of the "Theology of Liberation," by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith)
1986-01-06 - The Blind Leading the Blind (The multitudes are exhausted from their work and sufferings. They are worn out from being constantly over-stimulated by the media into paroxysmal emotions in all their leisure hours. They are tired of treading the fearful maze of chaotic events that have no relationship with the day-to-day religious, cultural, political, social and economic life of our modern existence)
1990-01-03 - Grilling the Left and the Extreme
Left (Castro: "We shall never renounce the honorable title of communist. Long live rigidity, not flexibility, in the defense of revolutionary principles!" Thus, you fence sitters, middle-of-the-roaders, and the like, inveterate toads or hopeless "useful innocents," fanatics of anti-"fanaticism," come right out and say what you think of Fidel's bold radicalism. With all frankness, tell us what you think of those who are in power in China)
1951-10 - Divorce and Romanticism
(“So, the unhappy spouse cannot begin his or her life again? Is it just to deprive spouses of the right to rebuild their happiness?”)
FEAST OF GLORY AND PEACE
(What is the true glory? Our Lord gives us a most opportune twofold lesson - Man's life on earth is a prefigure of the canticle of glory that he shall intone in Heaven for all eternity)
Beware, Your Door May Be
Unlocked! (Did communism die? Or is it just going through a crafty metamorphosis, from which anything can be expected?)
THE MONTH OF MARY
(At this anguished moment in history then, let us turn our eyes to Our Lady with confidence, asking her to hasten the great moment we all await. Let us desire many great things for the glory of God)
1954-11-13
- Considerations on Catholic Culture- Versão para o
Inglês da Conferência proferida pelo Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira em 13
de novembro de 1954 no Seminário Central de S. Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, a
convite do Revmo. Pe. Leonardo Fritzen, S. J., Reitor daquela Casa ( Para texto
em português ver
neste link )
1972 -
Commentary on the Treatise on True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin (n.
262-263 - continued): The special grace of the slave of Mary is to be
able to dwell in God’s exclusive sanctuary that is Our Lady / Our Lady’s
grandeur is such that it fills the enormous expanse between Her and ourselves /
What characterises a soul truly devoted to Our Lady is the sense of intimacy
between Her and the soul
1943 - IN DEFENSE OF CATHOLIC ACTION
(with a foreword by Archbishop B. Aloisi Masella, Apostolic Nuncio to Brazil and later Cardinal Camerlengo of the Roman Catholic Church. A keen analysis of the first stages of the leftist infiltration of Catholic Action, this work was highly praised in a
letter written on behalf of Pope Pius XII by Archbishop G. B. Montini, Substitute Secretary of State of the Holy See, and later Pope Paul VI - PDF: 1,243 KB)
1994 - The Timeliness of the Message of Fátima.
The moral crisis in the West has done nothing but increase - The requests of Our Lady were not heeded in a fundamental point - Retreat or metamorphosis of communism? - Clarity, vigilance, and courage
1982-10-12 - Headless Schools in Spain.
The education reform promoted by the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) violates the freedom of the Church and the inalienable rights of parents to educate their children. Furthermore, the Socialist Party aims to gradually impose the self-managing mentality and doctrine on young students through carefully worded slogans -
Lucid But Painful Prediction Of the Spanish TFP
1983-01 - U.S. Catholic Bishops Challenged Over Their
Inconsistency: "Catholic Bishops of America: Why Show Such Extreme Panic Over the Slaughter That Could Be Caused By A Nuclear Hecatombe And No Panic Over The Slaughter Caused By Legalized
Abortion"
1983-03 - The American TFP on Pacifism.
The unarmed man provided the occasion for aggression. The armed man prevented aggression. To be a true pacifist, it to be armed. He maintained the
peace.
1983-09 - TFP PROTESTS AGAINST THE SLAUGHTER IN THE
SKY. "The Downing of the Korean 747: A Deadly and Telltale Thunderbolt."
- The TFP in Manhattan: "Better Red than Dead? Never!" - We deny that the world is reduced to the alternative between surrendering to communism or facing nuclear catastrophe. We could hope that Almighty God would spare from this calamity the peoples who know how to love Him more than life, just as He might not spare those who love life more than
Him.
1987-08-06 - Colombian TFP Defines Legitimate Self-Defense.
With the present crescendo of violence threatening public order, the Colombian TFP, commissioned by a group of farmers, has published a statement signed by many eminent jurists affirming the measures of legitimate defense that one may take in defense of hearth and home.
1989-07 - The Strange “Right” to Insult Our Country / The American TFP to the public on the Burning of the Flag- Our Flag Radiates the Honor and Glory of Our Country - Does the American Constitution Guarantee the Desecration of Our National Symbols? - Excessive Justice Constitutes a Supreme Injustice: Against This an Immense National Clamor seeks a Remedy - "Salus populi, suprema lex" - Let Us Unite and May God Help
Us.
A TFP delegation in Moscow (December
1990), when a petition signed by five million people in favour
of the independence of Lithuania was delivered to Gorbachev
1994-01 - The American TFP in the March for Life:
Guaranteeing the Next Generation of Pro-lifers- "This child, who is alive today because he was not aborted, could become an abortionist tomorrow. To prevent this we must instill in our children the principle of respect for life as commanded by God: Thou Shalt Not
Kill!"
1995-09 - TFP-Covadonga vs. Spain Socialist Abortionists. Since its foundation in 1971, the Spanish TFP has not spared efforts in defense of the perennial principles of Christian civilization, with a special emphasis in favor of the unborn.
Conference of Prof. Plinio to supporters of the American TFP: The Cause of the Christian Civilization, 27 october 1982 - Part 1
The Cause of the Christian Civilization, 27 oct 1982 - Part 2