Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira

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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 , Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, together with Alceu Amoroso Lima and Heitor da Silva Costa and supported by Cardinal Archbishop Sebastião Leme da Silveira Cintra , founded the Catholic Election League . Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira was elected to the Constituent Assembly in 1933. From 1936 he taught at the Catholic college in São Paulo and appeared as a publicist and writer . From March 1940 he was President of the Catholic Action of São Paulo. From 1935 to 1947 he was the editor-in-chief of the semi-official weekly newspaper of the Archdiocese of São Paolo , O Legionário . In 1951 he suggested the founding of the Catholic magazine for culture and politics Catolicismo . He wrote for them 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 was Em Defesa da Ação Católica (1943) (German: In Defense of Catholic Action) with a foreword by the then Nuncio in Brazil and later Cardinal Benedetto Aloisi Masella . 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 the book Reforma Agrária: Questão de Consciência (German: Land reform: A question of conscience) in 1960 . This book took a stand against the land reform that was being debated in Brazil at the time and argued on the basis of the social teaching of the Catholic Church of Pope Gregory XVI. until John XXIII.

He acted as a defender of the papacy , the Church and the Christian West against the totalitarian systems of National Socialism and Communism , against the pernicious influence of the “American way of life” and against the process of “self-destruction” of the Catholic Church . Together with others he founded the Sociedade Brasileira de Defesa da Tradição, Família e Propriedade (TFP) (German: Brazilian Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Private Property) in 1960 . At his suggestion, organizations with corresponding names emerged in 26 countries on all five continents, which today form an extensive network of Catholic-style associations which, as he saw it, oppose the "revolutionary process" directed against Christian civilization. The societies are part of the conservative wing of the Catholic Church .

His followers consider Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira to be the heir of the counter-Enlightenment school of Joseph de Maistre , Louis-Gabriel-Ambroise de Bonald and Juan Donoso Cortés and one of the greatest Catholic thinkers of the 20th century. So said Juan Rodolfo Laise , former bishop of the diocese of San Luis in Argentina: "The Church and the Counter-Revolution need people the shock of Francis of Assisi , a Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira or Padre Pio ."

The TFP, founded by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, tries in many countries to realize the ideas of its founder. In Germany there is the German Society for the Protection of Tradition, Family and Private Property , which is personally networked with the German Association for a Christian Culture . In Austria there is a corresponding association, the Austrian Society for the Protection of Tradition, Family and Private Property.

Fonts in German translation

  • Unnoticed ideological transformation and dialogue . São Paulo 1967.
  • Revolution and counter-revolution . TFP Office Germany / German Association for a Christian Culture, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-9804623-1-5 .
  • Way of the Cross . German Association for a Christian Culture, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-9805070-3-3 .
  • Meditations for Holy Week and the Way of the Cross . German Association for a Christian Culture, Frankfurt am Main, 2nd edition 2003.
  • The nobility and comparable traditional elites in the speeches of Pope Pius XII. to the patriciate and the nobility of Rome . Austrian Society for the Protection of Tradition, Family and Private Property - TFP, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-9501846-1-7 .

Literature on Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira

  • Thomas C. Bruneau: The political transformation of the Brazilian Catholic Church. Cambridge University Press 1974, ISBN 0-521-20256-6 (particularly pp. 226-229).
  • Mathias von Gersdorff : Private property: holy right or hated privilege? Considerations on the restoration of the ownership structure before the land reform 1945-1949 in the former Soviet occupation zone in favor of the expropriated landowners . TFP office Germany, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-9804623-2-3 . (This brochure also describes Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira's struggle with land reform in Brazil.)
  • Massimo Introvigne : Una battaglia nella notte. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira e la crisi del secolo XX nella Chiesa . Sugarco, Milan 2008, ISBN 978-88-7198-564-0 .
  • Roberto de Mattei : The Crusader of the 20th Century. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira . Austrian Society for the Protection of Tradition, Family and Private Property (TFP) / Austrian Youth for a Christian-Cultural Community within the German-speaking Area (ÖJCGDR), Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-9501846-0-0 (Italian first edition: Il crociato del secolo , Casale Monferrato 1996).

Web links

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  1. ^ German Society for the Protection of Tradition, Family and Private Property
  2. ↑ Austrian Society for the Protection of Tradition, Family and Private Property - TFP ( Memento of the original from May 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tfp.at
personal data
SURNAME Oliveira, Plinio Corrêa de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oliveira, Plinio Correa de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian publicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH São Paulo
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 1995
Place of death São Paulo