Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira

Dona Lucilia possessed a limitless confidence in the mercy of Our Lord, and she asked His forgiveness for herself – because every human creature has defects – as well as for those whom she loved, and even for those who did not love her, but for whom she wished to …

The Miserere belongs to the group of seven psalms called penitential. What is a penitential psalm? Obviously, it is a hymn to God in which the author expresses his repentance. And repentance presupposes that he has sinned, repented and, once this feeling of repentance triumphed within him, he reflected on …

Our Lady, simply by placing her virginal hand on a soul full of defects and vices, burdened with sins, can transform it into a sanctuary. Just as through her appeal at Cana, Our Lord's command changed the water into wine, so too the Blessed Virgin can, at any moment, obtain …

As much as people may say otherwise, the phenomena of human society can only be studied in man. Society is a collection of men and therefore we must first analyse the principles that govern the behaviour of human beings and then study how these rules apply to society. The first …

Jacinta’s mission reveals to us the need for expiatory victims who, with their suffering and the sacrifice of their lives, collaborate so that the words of Our Lady will find fertile ground in the hearts of men. We can therefore comprehend how this apostolate of suffering is truly irreplaceable, and …

When there is a society – that is, an entire social body – that lives in unison, artists appear who, imbued with the same desire, make what that society wishes. And the work of art is a consonance – of one or a few men, endowed with special talents for …

Our Lady is present in the uninterrupted struggle that each man wages against his defects, to acquire greater virtues. And even if we do not remember her, Mary intercedes for us from the heights of Heaven, with a mercy that no kind of sin can ever exhaust. For it is …

Nothing could be more opportune, on the occasion of Christmas, than for us to comment on the advent of the Incarnate Word into the world, born of the Immaculate Virgin Mary. These considerations are based on the writings left by the seer Anne Catherine Emmerich,1 a 19th-century German mystic favoured …

St. John the Evangelist was one of the first fighters against the heresy emergent in his time, regarding the relationship between the human and divine natures of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Thus, the Virgin Apostle, the Apostle of the Heart of Jesus, the Apostle who received Our Lady as his …

In view of the tremendous moral decadence of our times, no one will be able to maintain perfect purity of body and soul without constant interior vigilance. Evil suggestions swarm everywhere and provoke disordered movements in the sensibility, which can go unnoticed at first, even masquerading as good feelings and …