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”.

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.

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