Free Access to Embassies, The Decisive Test – Folha de S. Paulo, April 27, 1980
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?
“Where Are We Headed?” – Folha de S. Paulo, March 5, 1980
Rarely in two thousand years has a pope asked such a grand, serious question in such a dire situation: Where are you going, 21st century?
The Failure of Detente and the Vatican Policy – Folha de S. Paulo, February 18, 1980
What can be done in the Catholic camp to bring an end to this catastrophe whose unchecked progress would slay the Church if She were mortal? Words coming from the lips of just one man would suffice. From the successor of him to whom it was said: “Thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against her”.
The Lullaby Revel Didn’t Mention – Folha de S. Paulo, February 8, 1980
The Soviet lullaby and the Catholic opinion – Pius XI, Pius XII, John XXIII, Paul VI, Vatican Council II, Jacques Maritain.
Lightning and Fireflies: Closing Thoughts – Folha de S. Paulo, January 6, 1980
It is better that we immediately focus our hopes on the visit of John Paul II, whose robust, lively, and cheerful presence will come to us in mid-1980.
Way, Style, Approach – Folha de S. Paulo, January 18, 1980
The country [Brazil] is saturated with copies. We need learned and experienced originality—in our own way, style, and little tricks.
A proposito di una parola-“parolaccia” – Folha de S. Paulo, 29-9-1979
Una visione strabica su un tema semplice. – Se in qualsiasi campo, di coerenza in coerenza si giunge all’apice della verità, di incoerenza in incoerenza si giunge all’abisso dell’assurdità.
Lightning, Fireflies, Silence – Folha de S. Paulo, December 29, 1979
The Church’s great hope for the twenty-first century is Latin America—those vast expanses of peoples, lands, and resources stretching from northern Mexico to the glacial reaches of Patagonia. Everything there is Catholic, at least in name and aspiration. And just as the twentieth century belonged to the United States and the nineteenth to colonial Europe, the twenty-first will be ours.
When the Evidence Speaks for Itself – Folha de S. Paulo, November 28, 1979
Do we not see part of the universal punishment announced by Our Lady in Fatima being fulfilled: the worldwide spread of Russia’s errors? The other part, which remains to be fulfilled if men do not convert, is persecution and wars that break out, and nations that disappear… Our Lady has never failed in her threats any more than in her promises.
An Oasis in the Sahara – Folha de S. Paulo, November 12, 1979
A very beautiful pastoral letter of bishops of Taiwan: “nothing can prevent Our Lord’s victory over evil”.