Tendencies and Mentalities

Adornment and Primordial Light

A wise teaching of Dr. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira points out the dual purpose of clothing: to cover the body and reveal the soul....

Two Ways of Rising

A Latin adage says that “mater artium necessitas”, necessity is the mother of the arts. This principle, applicable to practically every field of human...

Manipulated Morality?

In the days of yesteryear, we became accustomed to the fact that computers were gradually managing to imitate everything we possessed: they copied our...

A Monastery or a Shopping Centre?

The building that illustrates these pages, built at the end of the Middle Ages in a polychrome flamboyant Gothic style, is a clear example...

What Does Art Announce to Us?

If the highest vocation of art is to unite the heavenly to the earthly, the famous altarpiece of the Annunciation by Blessed Fra Angelico,...

Two Ways of “being god”?

Here are two artistic representations, each portraying a different god, as conceived by their respective worshippers. The first depicts the god Moloch at the...

The Mentality of Jesus, the Origin of Holy Tendencies

Our Lord Jesus Christ’s passage on this earth produced the greatest explosion in history – in the supernatural sphere of grace and salvation, no...