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”.
At A Pizzeria with the “Moderates” – Folha de S. Paulo, October 28, 1979
The psychology of hatred of very many “moderate” leftists.
Carlos Prestes and the Brazilian Communist Party: A Secondary Issue? – Folha de S. Paulo, October 10, 1979
by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira With the return of exiles, the issue of the Communist Party’s freedom in Brazil is becoming increasingly relevant. Understandably, Folha readers would ask for my opinion on the matter. I answer this question with some perplexity, as I do not understand why this issue would be dramatic. Indeed, […]
The Insidious Question – Centrists or genuine but bashful and disguised leftists? – Folha de S. Paulo, September 26, 1979
by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira Somebody asked me if I were a man of the right. Enthusiastically and euphorically I answered, “Yes.” On answering, I was already waiting for the concise and venomous little question that would come next: “Of the extreme right, then?” The poor fellow who formulated the question thought he […]
SALT II: The Second Munich – Folha de S. Paulo, August 14, 1979
SALT II: a capitulation to the Soviet Union comparable to Britain’s concessions to Nazi Germany in the 1930s.