How the Pope Persuaded Our Lady to Renovate the Holy House of Loreto

The Holy House of Loreto is Our Lady’s house from Nazareth. Jesus spent His adolescence there when they returned from Egypt. The Angels later transported the House to Loreto, Italy. The ecclesiastical historian Father Réné François Rohrbacher (1789-1856) narrates this impressive episode about how the Popes protected the House. “The local authorities sought to renovate the […]

St. Gregory the Great (3th September): The Seeds of the Middle Ages

by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira Saint of the Day, Saturday, March 11th, 1967 “A Roman and Apostolic Catholic, the author of this text submits himself with filial devotion to the traditional teaching of Holy Church. However, if by an oversight anything is found in it at variance with that teaching, he immediately and categorically rejects […]

Pius XI Founds Catholic Action

by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira This year marks the 80th anniversary of the publication of the book, In Defense of Catholic Action, by Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira. This book denounced the germs of progressivism inside the Church in Brazil with remarkable prophetic insights. To commemorate this book, the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, […]

The Siege of Czestochowa – Our Lady of Jasna Gora (26th August)

by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira Preliminary Note: The account of the siege of Czestochowa which we present here is based on the Memoirs of the Siege of Czestochowa by Father Augustine Kordecki (Pamietnik oblezenia Czestochowy, edited and with a preface by Jan Tokarski, London, Veritas, 1956). Written by Friar Kordecki in response to a wish of King Casimir, […]

Saint Louis IX, Crusaders & Statesman

by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira An informal lecture gave on August 25, 1964 (*)   August 25 is the feast of Saint Louis IX, king, confessor of the Faith, crusader and model of a Catholic head of state. There are two different ways people picture Saint Louis IX. One is as he truly was, the […]

Queen of Immense Majesty

by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira Crusade magazine, Mar-Apr 1996   The regularity with which the various cycles of the liturgical year succeed one another in the Church’s calendar is truly an affirmation of the celestial majesty of the Church. She remains undisturbed no matter how much the events of human history change around her and despite the […]

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