Taking Action for Family Values and a Christian Civilization

Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira

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Faith Brings Harmony to Family, Society and State

I believe that the patriarchal society, like everything that exists in this valley of tears, becomes stronger over time, in proportion to its existence and production. However, at the same time, it grows older and older. Both institutions and families age. And, gradually, glory itself becomes a burden under which these institutions, just as individuals, […]

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Understanding the Social Function of Private Property

Free enterprise and private property have some rather strange supporters around the world. While professing to be ardent anti-communists, these supporters always advocate some restrictions on private property or free enterprise when proposing solutions for socio-economic problems. The greater the limitations, the more they rejoice. Their justification is always the same: Private property and free

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A God So Small, Yet Infinite; Infinite, Yet So Small!

“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, the glory as it were of the Only Begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” Thus does Saint John’s Gospel (1:14) announce the ineffably grand moment when the Son of God ‘dwelt among us” in order to manifest

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Warning! A Virus Threatens The Future of The West and Christian Civilization

The Catholic Concept of the Common Good Is the Antidote to the Pandemic’s Ideological Manipulation     The world now faces a turning point in history that will define generations to come. In addition to the suffering and death toll, the coronavirus pandemic might trigger the greatest changes that humanity has faced in Christianity’s two

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Don’t Treat Wolves Like Lost Sheep

The doctrine of Our Lord Jesus Christ is full of seemingly antagonistic truths which nevertheless when examined closely, far from mutually denying one another, actually complement one another, forming a truly marvellous harmony. This is the case, for example, with the seeming contradiction between divine Justice and Goodness. God is at the same time infinitely

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Pope Francis’ Symbolic Gesture Commemorating Heretic Luther

Symbolic acts and gestures often have a greater persuasive power than words and reasoning, though one completes the other. This is why the Divine Saviour constantly used both symbolic gestures and employed metaphors and parables. This is also why the Church has always surrounded herself with symbols to make visible the beauty of her doctrine,

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XXI Century Crusade

Medieval Crusaders shed their blood to free the Sepulchre of Our Lord Jesus Christ from the hands of the infidels and to establish a Christian kingdom in the Holy Land. Today the blood of Catholics still flows — in Communist China, the Sudan, Cuba, and many other countries where religious persecutions continue to claim the

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Unperceived Ideological Transshipment and Dialogue

CONTENTS Introduction1. Twisting Words in the Service of Communist Propaganda2. Unmasking a Process3. Implicit Ideological Action, the Central Feature of the Process4. Unperceived Ideological Transshipment: A Summary Chapter I – The New Communist Tactic: Persuasive Action in the Subconscious1. An Obsolete Conception of the Efficacy of the Techniques of Persuasion and Violence in the Communist

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