Is Glory to God in the Highest a Secondary Aspect of Christmas?
Catolicismo, December 1963 by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira THOU dost repose, O Lord, in Thy pitiful and august manger, under the eyes of the Virgin, Thy Mother, which shed the inalienable treasures of their respect and affection over Thee. Never has a creature adored its God with such deep and respectful humility. Never […]
Saint Bernard Teaches: Do Not Take Your Eyes Off Our Lady
by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira We do well to read some advice from Saint Bernard about devotion to Our Lady. The advice is as follows: “Oh, whosoever thou art that perceiveth thyself during this mortal existence to be rather drifting in treacherous waters, at the mercy of the winds and the waves, than walking […]
The Reasons the Church’s Enemies Hate The Immaculate Conception
An Anti-Egalitarian Dogma. The Unsullied Purity of Our Lady. The Exercise of Papal Infallibility
St. Francis Xavier: The position of a Catholic in danger – The relationship between the Catholic spirit and the spirit of chivalry
Saint of the Day, Friday, September 21, 1973 by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira “A Roman and Apostolic Catholic, the author of this text submits himself with filial devotion to the traditional teaching of Holy Church. However, if by an oversight anything is found in it at variance with that teaching, he immediately and categorically rejects […]
Advent: recollection, quiet contrition and hope
“Twilight” of the Sun of Justice This article was written by the eminent Catholic thinker and man of action, Professor Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira on January 1st, 1979 for the newspaper, Folha de S.Paulo, in Brazil. Harkening to days of his youth in the early twentieth century, in then small-town São Paulo, he bemoans what rampant […]
What is the thirst for souls – “Disinfecting” concepts from any odor of a merely sentimental and sweet “piety”
The personality of St. Therese of the Infant Jesus (at eight years old)
Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal: the first great step toward re-Marianization in the 19th century, preparing the great movement of souls that culminated with the proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception
Saint of the Day – November 27, 1963 by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira “A Roman and Apostolic Catholic, the author of this text submits himself with filial devotion to the traditional teaching of Holy Church. However, if by an oversight anything is found in it at variance with that teaching, he immediately and categorically rejects […]
Nothing learned, nothing forgotten – The perfect code of human conduct is in the Ten Commandments of the Law of God
If all men were to follow this Law fully, all of man’s ideological and moral problems would be resolved
Saint Dismas: An Intercessor for Desperate Causes
by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira Saint of the Day, Feb. 14, 1972 Sculptures of Saint Dismas 19th century, St. Augustine Parish Church of Baliuag (Philippines) – Wikipedia “A Roman and Apostolic Catholic, the author of this text submits himself with filial devotion to the traditional teaching of Holy Church. However, if by an […]
Saints, Blesseds and Servants of God martyred in the Spanish War of 1936 (6th november) – Characteristics of the counter-revolutionary: vigilant, suspicious, pugnacious
The higher the virtue, the stronger it is… if it is vigilant!