El Rey Sol: la grandeza que no quiso ser un nuevo San Luis
Luis XIV, al no consagrar Francia al Sagrado Corazón, contribuyó al proceso que culminó en la Rev. Francesa.
Luther, Absolutely Not! – Folha de S. Paulo, December 27, 1983
The letter of John Paul II to Cardinal Willebrands regarding the five-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Martin Luther and signed last October 31, the anniversary of the heresiarch’s first act of rebellion.
Four Dirty and Ugly Fingers – Folha de S. Paulo, November 16, 1983
“You think the bourgeoisie are ready to make this mistake again. You are right. So, a Kerensky-style government will be formed—quite left-wing. And the next day will belong to the Lenin of my choosing.”
The toads… for how much longer the toads? – Folha de S. Paulo, October 13, 1983
“better red than dead”: the meaning of that slogan is that earthly life is man’s supreme good. Whence all the martyrs and all the soldiers who heretofore understood the contrary are imbeciles.
Marx and Luther in the New French Missal – Folha de S. Paulo, September 13, 1983
This seems to me a thousand times more tragic than the nuclear danger, the international financial crisis, or anything else.
JB’s Authoritarian Centrism – Folha de S. Paulo, August 13, 1983
I am naturally averse to irony because of my temperament, upbringing, and disposition. – This amounts to a centrist dictatorship—not enforced by Bonaparte’s brute force, but through the subtle pressure of capital.
The Media’s Centrist Authoritarianism – Folha de S. Paulo, August 10, 1983
If a government were to unite against both the right and the left to push its centrist agenda, it would clearly show the main trait of a dictatorship: silencing dissenters.
Mediocrologists – Folha de S. Paulo, July 22, 1983
What can be won definitively by fighting the Kremlin if its adversary, the West, continues to stoop itself in mediocrity? Some observations about the mediocre man by one of the heroes of militant Catholicism in France, Ernest Hello.
Preventing in Order to Strengthen – Folha de S. Paulo, July 5, 1983
The Fourth Branch is the Media, whose prestige rests less on the discernment of truly educated readers than on the credulity of the naïve. The Fifth Branch is the CNBB, which—save for rare and honorable exceptions—derives its weight far more from its sway over the gullible than from the adherence of genuine men of faith.
A Breach in the Stifling Room – Folha de S. Paulo, May 31, 1983
The Brazilian crisis has moral—and, I would add, implicitly religious—dimensions that cannot be addressed solely on the economic level.