Fr. Carlos Javier Werner Benjumea, EP

Man’s life on earth, from the moment our eyes open to this world until they close after the last combat, has always been and will always be, whether we like it or not, a constant struggle. And the reason for this struggle is the one hostility established by God: “I …

God’s works are grandiose and proclaim His glory. However, mediocre man does not perceive behind these marvels the artist’s fingers of the Lord of Heaven and earth, who moulded all beings in the image of His sublime goodness. Creation is a mystery that only eyes enlightened by faith can see. …

On this Solemnity of the Epiphany, the Holy Magi shine before our eyes with special brilliance. The pious adventure of these idealistic, courageous and faith-filled men is a true parable of the journey of every baptized person. In fact, they were eagerly awaiting some great event that would give meaning …

It was June 15, 2005. Dcn. João, accompanied by fourteen companions of ideal, were about to be ordained priests in the Basilica of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in São Paulo, in the same place where, almost fifty years previously, he had first met Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, his spiritual …

On the morning of April 27, 1968, the seventh-day Mass for the repose of the soul of Dona Lucilia was celebrated in the Church of St. Thérèse of Lisieux in São Paulo. Her son, Dr. Plinio, who was attentively following the Holy Sacrifice, had a haunting doubt in his mind, …

Jesus looked lovingly upon a young man who practised the Commandments and invited him: “Go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in Heaven; and come, follow Me” (Mk 10:21). This call to abandon everything in order to follow the Divine Master first …

The Holy Scriptures present Jesus Christ as the High Priest of the New and Eternal Covenant, established by God through His Most Precious Blood shed on the Cross. The Epistle to the Hebrews affirms this categorically; the Apocalypse represents Him in prophetic language, using symbolic figures; other New Testament writings …

While an essential part of the Church’s work of evangelization is to teach men and women to pray to the Father, through the Son in the Holy Spirit, new evangelization entails the recovery and consolidation of pastoral practices which manifest belief in the real presence of Our Lord under the …