CONTENTS
Preface of His Eminence Alfons Maria Cardinal Stickler
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter I – “When still very young…”
1. The last rays of the “sweetness of living”
2. Brazil: a vocation for greatness
3. São Paulo: a European island in the American continent
5. From the hearts of the mothers to the hearts of the children: Dona Lucilia
6. The first glance towards Europe
7. The decline of the Belle Epoque
8. The rise of the American myth
9. A militant conception of spiritual life
Chapter II – “The Legionário was born to fight…”
1. The importance of the Catholic Church in the life of Brazil
2. The historical “turning point” of 1930
3. The Catholic Electoral League
6. The denouncement of National Socialist paganism
7. Loyalty to the Church and intellectual independence
8. You chose shame and you will have war
9. “The most enigmatic war of this century”
10. The obscure complicity between Nazism and Communism
11. The disastrous comedy of the U.N.
13. “The Legionário was born to fight”
Chapter III – In Defence of Catholic Action
1. Pius XI and Catholic Action
2. The “new Christianity” of Jacques Maritain
4. Catholic Action at the cross-roads
5. The apogee of the Legionário
6. Diocesan President of Catholic Action
7. In defence of Catholic Action
9. A star was lit in the night…
Chapter IV – Revolution and Counter-Revolution
1. “Doctor of the Counter-Revolution”
2. Christianity in the Pontifical Magisterium
3. The great crisis of the Christian West
4. The historical stages of the Revolution
5. The depths of the Revolution
6. The role of passions in the revolutionary process
7. The speeds of the Revolution
8. The agents of the Revolution: Freemasonry and sects
9. The anarchical goal of the Revolution
10. The metaphysical values of the Revolution
11. The “philosophia perennis” of Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
12. Ambiences, customs, civilizations
13. The Counter-Revolution and Catholic civilization
14. The driving force of the Counter-Revolution
15. The Counter-Revolution and the Church
16. Beyond the frontiers of Brazil: a school of thought and action
17. Nobility and Analogous Traditional Elites in face of the IV Revolution
18. The judgement of an eminent contemporary theologian of Revolution and Counter-Revolution
Chapter V – Tradition, Family, Property
1. A consistent and inseparable block…
3. The left-wing evolution of the Brazilian clergy and the birth of the CNBB
4. “Land reform”: a matter of conscience
5. The condemnation of Communist infiltration in the clergy
6. In face of the Communist threat against the Church
7. A tribalistic and Communist conception of the mission
8. A denunciation of the revolutionary character of the Grassroot Ecclesial communities
9. The TFP in the world: the development of the anti-Communist epic
10. 1994: An overall view of the world
11. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira as “Father” and “Founder”
12. Between misunderstandings and slander
13. Proper and improper cult according to the Church
14. A specific vocation: the “consacratio mundi”
Chapter VI – Passion of Christ, Passion of the Church
1. Credo in unam sanctam, catholicam et apostolicam Ecclesiam
2. The Jubilee of 1950: triumph or incipient crisis?
3. The announcement of Vatican Council II
4. Would the Council condemn Communism?
5. The Council of “Aggiornamento”
6. The freedom of the Church in the Communist State
7. The silence on Communism: a failed Council?
8. A new relationship of the Church with the world
9. The “resistance” to the Vatican Ostpolitik
10. The denunciation of the modernist “dialogue”
12. The postconciliar crisis explodes
14. Passion of Christ, Passion of the Church
Chapter VII – Towards the Reign of Mary
1. The chaos of the end of the millennium
2. The theology of history of Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
3. St Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort and the Treatise on the true devotion to the Blessed Virgin
4. Marian devotion and Counter-Revolutionary apostolate
5. The Reign of Mary in the de Montfort perspective
6. Servitudo ex caritate: obey to be free
7. The fruits of consecration: a new Middle Ages?
9. The “third secret” of Fatima
10. Apocalyptics and millenarianism
11. Visions of Popes and of saints of the future
12. Towards the century of the immense triumph