The French Revolution numbers among her antiquated enthusiasms. Lafayette, Mirabeau, Danton, Marat, Robespierre—she jumbles them all in the same feverish admiration. She still rants against the bloodthirsty rage of Louis XVI and the bacchanalia of Marie Antoinette. She is sure that when the Bastille was taken, it was found to be crammed … Read more
The precise evaluation of the importance of an event can only rarely be achieved by the employing of just one criterion. Much more than this is normally required. In fact, it behooves one to consider all of the criteria applicable to the case, in order to be able to arrange them immediately … Read more
What exactly is an anti-communist? This is a question which appears to be so simple of resolution as to border on being foolish. However, there are different ways in which it may be answered. If we consider only the two most common responses to it being given nowadays, we should see that … Read more
On the basis of the memoirs of Cardinal Mindszenty published in The Sunday Telegraph, I wrote last Sunday about the simultaneous moves of Paul VI and Nixon, carried out according to the imperative desire of the Communist government of Budapest, in order to uproot the glorious Prelate from Hungarian soil. I described … Read more
The following document was written by the late Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, founder of the Brazilian Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property. In April 10, 1974, it was published with good results in the major newspapers of South America, because it provided a balanced, vigorously studied and wise answer to the most perplexing question of its day: what was the right position to take in face of the Vatican policy of détente with Communist regimes?
There is no one in the Catholic world who has not heard of the famous Marian shrine of Czestochowa in Poland. Because of the continuous flow of pilgrims to it, which the disgusting campaign of the atheists has not managed to reduce, the shrine was usually so full that the Catholic population … Read more
When in 1971 the U.N. expelled Taiwan and accepted Red China as a member, a general consensus of appeasement swept over the world, infecting minds with forgetfulness of the horrors of Communism. As something quite similar is taking place today with the United States normalizing trade with China, we thought it advantageous … Read more
“History is the tutor of life,” said Cicero. Nothing is more useful for the understanding of certain of the liveliest aspects of modern reality than the study of analogous situations of the past. Heresies, as is well-known, rose up one after the other during the whole twenty centuries of the history of … Read more
I could not resist. My original intention was to write about some other theme, such as the internal crisis of the Church, but I felt that there were no conditions for such a subject either in myself or in those around me. At the same time, as if from the depth of … Read more
""[vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text] For a PDF version of this document, please click here.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]This article is best viewed using Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]""""[vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row]""""[vc_column_text] 教會與共產國家：勢不兩立 普利尼奧．科雷亞．德．奧里維拉 著 一九六三年八月一日（星期四） ．本文提出的核心問題 ．作者自序 ．事實 ．一個複雜的問題 ．問題的實際重要性 ．避免不了的問題 ．面對難題 ．解決之道 ．最後異議的解析 ．協議的成效：造就膚淺的天主教徒 ．實際結論 ．大屠殺的真正禍害在那裏？ ．撮要 ．本文提出的核心問題 眾所周知，在共產政權下，教會或許可以繼續運作，但自由却很有限。波蘭就是其中一例。 這引起了一個問題：西方天主教徒當自己的國家有可能成為共產政權時，在道德精神上應否泰然接受，視之為正當合理的呢？ 這是難以避免的問題。以波蘭為例，共產政權一方面為了政治理由可能在一段相當長的時間內，給予教會最低限度的自由。但另一方面，西方國家很快就要在兩害中選其一：那就是要核子戰爭，或是接受共黨統治。 假如在共黨政權下，教會容許連自由有缺失也可接受，那或許為了避免核子戰爭災難，讓馬克思主義大獲全勝可能是較輕的禍害。但假如教會及共黨政權並存，將使宗教信仰全部或差不多全部徹底滅絕，須要冒如此大風險那便是完全另一回事了。坦白說，由於失去宗教信仰的禍害比核子毀滅更甚，那麼反對馬克思主義的抗爭所帶來的災害，相比就較輕了。 這問題是何其迫切，何其明顯！仔細看一下本雜誌今期封面的照片，共黨在米蘭大教堂前示威，那是在近期意大利選舉時發生的。 這個情景發生在意大利──教會最中心的所在地，教會與共產主義如此接近，那實在是悲劇。這種情景的出現，發展下去會怎麼樣，誰也没把握。 但是，奧里維拉在《教會與共產國家：勢不兩立》一文中為我們所說的核心問題，提出一個唯一的解決方法，令人折服。 作者自序 一九六三年這份研究報告首度發表，當時共產黨在宣傳及外交上越來越力求培養出一個政權，能夠在資本主義和共產主義世界中和平共存。當時正值冷戰後，東、西方剛展開交往。 … Read more