Yesterday, So Long Ago – Folha de S. Paulo, October 25, 1980

Each shock seizes the present so completely, with such vehemence, that the mind is carried on the black wings of apprehension toward a hostile future, and the past vanishes from view. When it finally returns, it is so faded and torn that it resembles a shapeless bundle of rags—nothing like the once-pleasant bouquet of forget-me-nots.

Service, a Joy – Folha de S. Paulo, September 13, 1980

Imagine then that to your spirit – bruised by life, calloused or even wounded, hot with fever – one of those figures appears about which your childhood innocence, dead now for many years, used to dream. A queen, all majestic and smiling, leads you by the hand into the rays of radiant, peaceful, rainbow-colored light surrounding her in an effort to help you.

Santo Agostinho de Cantuária (27/5) e a verdadeira vitória

Santo do Dia, 28 de maio de 1969 A D V E R T Ê N C I A O presente texto é adaptação de transcrição de gravação de conferência do Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira a sócios e cooperadores da TFP, mantendo portanto o estilo verbal, e não foi revisto pelo autor. Se o Prof. Plinio […]

To You, Dear Atheist – Folha de S. Paulo, August 31, 1980

In today’s scanty moments of leisure, on the contrary, it is the neurotic tumult of disappointments, worries, wild ambitions and exacerbated weariness that rise to the surface. And over this tumult hovers an overwhelming, leaden, and obscure question: “What am I living for?”

Back to the Tower of Babel? – Folha de S. Paulo, August 12, 1980

The Tower of Babel, Pieter Bruegel the Old, 1563 — Museum Kunsthistorisches, Wien   Flawless concord, perfect and eternal peace among all men, all nations, and all doctrines, and complete happiness are not of this world. In this land of exile, shortages, dissensions, and catastrophes are inevitable. And because they are inevitable, a Christian vision […]

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