The Cunctator: a Maximalist? Folha de S. Paulo, August 24, 1978
October 23, 1978: the historic embrace between Pope John Paul II and his great friend Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, Archbishop of Warsaw and Primate of Poland At the first preparatory meeting of the conclave, Cardinal Wyszynski, Archbishop of Warsaw, reported that 300,000 Poles—including 7,500 university students—planned to walk in a pilgrimage to the famous shrine […]
From the Pages of the Press to Those of History – II, Folha de S. Paulo, August 20, 1968
The authoritarianism of a minority of brazilians bishops, imposing solutions a majority of the CNBB
From the Pages of the Press to Those of History – I, Folha de S. Paulo, August 17, 1968
The TFP petition against communist infiltration in the Church
TFP affirms: “Fearlessness is not radicalism” – Poor Country if its fearless and orderly children were to retreat in the face of confusing slogans
And how lucky Communism would be if it encountered only fearful opponents
Mediocrologists
Affirm nothing, deny nothing, cry out for almost no right, protest against no obscenity
“The race of man (are) separated into two diverse and opposite parts” (Pope Leo XIII)
Encyclical “Humanum Genus” (Pope Leo XIII), 20th April 1884: To the Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops, and Bishops of the Catholic World in Grace and Communion with the Apostolic See. The race of man, after its miserable fall from God, the Creator and the Giver of heavenly gifts, “through the envy of the devil,” separated into […]
“If someday, some wall must be splattered with my blood…” (by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira)
Original audio (in portoghese) Auditorium of the Belo Horizonte School of Medicine, October 30, 1961 by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira After the lecture that the Catholic leader and founder of the Brazilian TFP gave against socialist and confiscatory agrarian reform, he answered several questions asked by young university students present there. To hear or […]
6 Lessons from the 600,000 – Folha de S. Paulo, August 7, 1968
The mirages of leftist progressivism and all authentic “updating” (“aggiornamento”)
How Our Lady celebrated her birthday
Saint of the Day – Sept 8, 1975 – Monday “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 it.” The […]
Our Lady’s Birth and the Triumph of Her Reign
by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira Everything the Church does is wise. In Her wisdom, She classifies the different levels of honor to be paid to God, Our Lady and the saints. The first level, called latria or adoration, is only for God and Our Lord Jesus Christ, Who is the Incarnate Word. The […]