Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira

Bell Towers of Tradition

After these days of frequent contact, which first appeared as an arduous unknown to overcome, but throughout which your souls were illuminated with new...

Rules for the Aesthetics of the Universe

Considering creation, we can ask ourselves why God, being infinitely perfect and having in himself all plenitude, wished to create the immense quantity of...

A Beacon of Catholic Sense

St. Thomas Aquinas was a great beacon which God placed in His Church, enlighten, comfort and encourage souls throughout the centuries so that they...

Abyss of All Virtues

In the prospect of treating of a topic so dear to me as devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, my way of being...

Devotion to Our Lady: Essential Requirement for the Counter-Revolution

Let us begin by setting out here some thoughts contained in Revolution and Counter-Revolution.1 Pride and impurity in the origin of the Revolution The Revolution is...

Converted by the Beauty of the Church

The literature of our days, bound to sensuality, is in a clear thematic crisis. This crisis is truly the most serious problem that all...

We Are All Called to Heroism

My interlocutor mentioned the heroism of the crusaders, the religious, the martyrs and a series of other forms of heroism. What is common among...

An Ever-Growing Love of the Church

To know the Church in all its resplendence it is necessary, at a certain point, to sense in one’s inmost soul what it is....

God’s Chosen Ones

I would like to reflect on one of the Beatitudes: “Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom...

Regal and Victorious Presence of the Divine Infant

A Child is about to be born in Bethlehem! What can we say about this event? When the Word became incarnate and dwelt among...

The Authentic Manner of Exercising Authority

Command, understood in its strict sense, is the power of a person invested with religious or civil authority – whether military or merely administrative...

Called to Render Great Service to the Church

There are two positions of God in relation to men. Some fall under what we call general providence; others under what we call special...