Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira

Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira ( born December 13, 1908 in São Paulo, † October 3, 1995 in São Paulo ) was a Catholic- conservative Brazilian politician and publicist.

Life

In 1932 he founded together with Alceu Amoroso Lima and Heitor da Silva Costa and Cardinal Archbishop Sebastião Leme da Silveira Cintra promoted the Catholic Electoral League. Plinio Correa de Oliveira was in 1933 elected to the Constituent Assembly. From 1936 he taught at the Catholic University in Sao Paulo and entered as a publicist and writer to the public. From March 1940 he was president of the Catholic Action of Sao Paulo. From 1935 to 1947 he was the chief editor of the semi-official weekly newspaper of the Archdiocese of São Paolo, O Legionário. In 1951, he proposed the creation of the Catholic magazine for culture and politics Catolicismo. For this he wrote until his death. From 1968 to 1990 he wrote for the largest daily newspaper in Latin America, the Folha de S. Paulo. His first book Em Defesa was there Ação Católica ( 1943) ( German: In Defense of Catholic Action ) with a foreword by the then Nuncio in Brazil and later Cardinal Aloisi Masella Benedetto. For this book, he received a letter of recognition from the substitutes in the Vatican Secretariat of State, Mons in 1949. Giovanni Battista Montini, the future Pope Paul VI .. He is also the author of nineteen books and thousands of articles.

Together with Archbishop Geraldo de Proença Sigaud, Bishop Antônio de Castro Mayer and the economist Luiz Mendonça de Freitas, he wrote in 1960 the book Reforma Agraria: Questão de Consciência ( German: Land reform: A question of conscience ). This book took a stand against the then under discussion in Brazil land reform and argued on the basis of the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church by Pope Gregory XVI. to John XXIII.

It occurred as a defender of the papacy, the Church and the Christian West against the totalitarian regimes of Nazism and Communism, against the pernicious influence of the "American way of life" as well as to the process of " self-destruction " of the Catholic Church. Together with others he founded in 1960 the Sociedade Brasileira de Defesa because Tradição, Família e propriedade ( German: Brazilian Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and private property ). At his suggestion organizations emerged in 26 countries on 5 continents with its name, which today form an extensive network of associations of Catholic embossing, which opposes the anti- Christian civilization "revolutionary process ". The companies belong to the conservative wing of the Catholic Church.

His followers consider Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira as the heirs of the Enlightenment against a school De Maistre, Bonald and Donoso Cortés de and one of the greatest Catholic thinkers of the 20th century. So said Monsignor Juan Rodolfo Laise, former bishop of the Diocese of San Luis in Argentina: " The Church and the Counter-Revolution people need the beat of a Francis of Assisi, Plinio Correa de Oliveira or one of Padre Pio. "

The TFP was founded by Plinio Correa de Oliveira attempts in many countries to realize the ideas of its founder. In Germany, the German society exists for the protection of traditional family private property, which is networked with personnel of the German Association for Christian culture. In Austria there is a corresponding association.

On 30 October 2008 his last book ( translation, original published in 1993 ) was launched, the nobility and the comparable traditional elites in Vienna. For this book, Correa de Oliveira was the 1993 letter of recognition of Alfons Maria Stickler, SDB Cardinal Silvio Oddi, Mario Luigi Ciappi OP and the theologian Raimondo SPIAZZI OP and Victorino Rodríguez y Rodríguez year.

Works ( German translations)

• Unnoticed ideological transformation and dialogue, São Paulo, Brazil in 1967.
• Revolution and Counter-Revolution, Frankfurt am Main, 1996, ISBN 3980462315
• Stations of the Cross, Frankfurt am Main, 1997, ISBN 3980507033
• Reflections for Holy Week and Via Crucis, Frankfurt am Main, 2003, 2nd edition
• The nobility and the comparable traditional elites, Vienna, 2008, ISBN 3950184619

Plinio Correa de Oliveira literature on

• Thomas C. Bruneau: The political transformation of the Brazilian Catholic Church. Cambridge University Press 1974. ISBN 0521202566 ( especially pp. 226-229 ).
• Mathias von Gersdorff: Private Property: Holy legal or hateful privilege, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3980462323 In this brochure the discussion by Plinio Correa de Oliveira is described in detail with the land reform in Brazil?. .
• Massimo Introvigne: Una battaglia nella notte. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira e la crisi del secolo XX nella Chiesa. Milan 2008. ISBN 9788871985640
• Prof. Roberto de Mattei [Übers: Alfred J. Keller ]: Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira: ". , The Crusaders of the 20th century, " With a pref by Cardinal Alfons Maria Stickler SDB. Vienna 2004, ISBN 3950184600 (orig. Italian: Il crociato del secolo 20).