To You, Dear Atheist – Folha de S. Paulo, August 31, 1980
In today’s scanty moments of leisure, on the contrary, it is the neurotic tumult of disappointments, worries, wild ambitions and exacerbated weariness that rise to the surface. And over this tumult hovers an overwhelming, leaden, and obscure question: “What am I living for?”
Five ‘Pills’ – Folha de S. Paulo, August 23, 1980
Is Brazil becoming a tragic Babel without a tower, summit, or even a clear center… just a whirlpool?
Back to the Tower of Babel? – Folha de S. Paulo, August 12, 1980
The Tower of Babel, Pieter Bruegel the Old, 1563 — Museum Kunsthistorisches, Wien Flawless concord, perfect and eternal peace among all men, all nations, and all doctrines, and complete happiness are not of this world. In this land of exile, shortages, dissensions, and catastrophes are inevitable. And because they are inevitable, a Christian vision […]
Utopia and the Message – Folha de S. Paulo, July 29, 1980
Therefore, imagining a world without struggles and setbacks is like imagining a world without Jesus Christ.
“Say Just One Word…” – Folha de S. Paulo, July 1, 1980
So far, the Universal Church has never faced a crisis as severe as the one it confronts now. In the West, this crisis affects various aspects of spirituality, even among non-believers. It is therefore far more serious than nuclear war because, as long as the world exists, disasters in the spiritual realm will surpass those in the material realm, and that is significant.
A Precarious State That Always Ends Badly – Folha de S. Paulo, June 18, 1980
If material bread is neither the supreme nor only good, why do liberation theologians speak of it alone?
The Horse, the Witch, and the Child – Folha de S. Paulo, May 22, 1980
In our country [Brazil], misinformation spreads wildly, unleashed like an apocalyptic horse. Riding this horse is a witch: socialist and confiscatory agrarian reform. She travels everywhere, carrying a small child she nurses tirelessly: communism.
POTWCT – Folha de S. Paulo, May 8, 1980
“Party of Those Who Cannot Think”
Free Access to Embassies, The Decisive Test – Folha de S. Paulo, April 27, 1980
Cuba: the situation of the unfortunate 10,000 refugees in the Peruvian embassy – Why Carter has still done nothing to dismantle the dictatorship of Cuban extremism?
“Where Are We Headed?” – Folha de S. Paulo, March 5, 1980
Rarely in two thousand years has a pope asked such a grand, serious question in such a dire situation: Where are you going, 21st century?