Advent: recollection, quiet contrition and hope
“Twilight” of the Sun of Justice This article was written by the eminent Catholic thinker and man of action, Professor Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira on January 1st, 1979 for the newspaper, Folha de S.Paulo, in Brazil. Harkening to days of his youth in the early twentieth century, in then small-town São Paulo, he bemoans what rampant […]
What is the thirst for souls – “Disinfecting” concepts from any odor of a merely sentimental and sweet “piety”
The personality of St. Therese of the Infant Jesus (at eight years old)
Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal: the first great step toward re-Marianization in the 19th century, preparing the great movement of souls that culminated with the proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception
Saint of the Day – November 27, 1963 by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira “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 […]
The Miraculous Medal, the apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary to the Hebrew Alphonse Ratisbonne. Alphonse’s own report of his conversion (1842)
From the booklet “Our Lady of the Miracle”, Rome, 1971 Preface We intend with this little booklet to respond to the expressed wishes of the pilgrims and faithful devoted to the shrine of Our Lady of the Miracle – in the Basilica di S. Andrea delle Fratte in Rome, who want to find out […]
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
The Importance of Indulgences to Shorten or Avoid Purgatory: St. Catherine of Siena’s Crucial Intervention in History
The Importance of Indulgences to Shorten or Avoid Purgatory
Saint Dismas: An Intercessor for Desperate Causes
by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira Saint of the Day, Feb. 14, 1972 Sculptures of Saint Dismas 19th century, St. Augustine Parish Church of Baliuag (Philippines) – Wikipedia “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 […]
Saints, Blesseds and Servants of God martyred in the Spanish War of 1936 (6th november) – Characteristics of the counter-revolutionary: vigilant, suspicious, pugnacious
The higher the virtue, the stronger it is… if it is vigilant!
The “Doves” Obstinate Stubbornness – Folha de S. Paulo, October 21, 1973
In the Arab-Israeli conflict, one must distinguish between two layers of reality
The Rosary is an instrument of God’s Wisdom, an abundant fountain of graces known and unknown
And recommendations on holy water