The Crusader of the 20th Century: Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, by Roberto de Mattei, 1998

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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

4. The Blessing of the crib

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

4. Editor of the Legionário

5. The European “civil war”

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.

12. Islam to conquer Europe?

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

3. The “liturgical movement”

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

8. An “act of Kamikaze”

9. A star was lit in the night…

10. A new flag: Catolicismo

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…

2. New methods of apostolate

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”

11. True and false ecumenism

12. The postconciliar crisis explodes

13. Old and new Ordo Missae

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?

8. “De Fatima numquam satis”

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

Conclusion

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