Why? – Folha de S. Paulo, January 10, 1971
The TFP campaign to gather donations for Christmas for the poor under the leadership of the Association of Ladies of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul
“Taquinerie” – Folha de S. Paulo, January 3, 1971
The Reader and the New Year
Sermon by Saint Augustine explaining an apparent contradiction: why saints sometimes accept and sometimes reject the honors bestowed upon them.
Consecration of Saint Augustine. Painting by Jaime Huguet (15th century), Museum of Art of Catalonia, Barcelona. On Purity of Intention St. Augustine Sermon on what is written in St. Matthew’s Gospel: “So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father Who is in heaven” (Matt. 5:16). […]
Catholicism and Politics (*)
True pious life necessarily expands. And if it does not expand, it is not true.
Heroism and Its Most Fundamental Aspects
What exactly is heroism? – We practice the virtues that our times detest.
When Men and Commerce Lived in Serenity
A rich lesson for our poor world, ever more devastated by neuroses
Routine —including prayer— is the common atmosphere of the lives of serious people who love God.
The very definition of courage.
The Brazilian Soul
Understand Brazil, Brazilians, and Brazilianness. Otherwise…
The perfection of patriotism forms heroes. Its deformation gives rise to bandits – Legionário, São Paulo (Brazil), January 28, 1940
St. Augustine: The greatest evil of war is the offense done to God by the sin of the aggressor
Suspicion, Vigilance, Pugnacity With Oneself and the true counter-revolutionary
Sloth, the defect which is opposed to vigilance