Introduction

The document that follows was written by Plinio Correa de Oliveira, president of the National Council of the Brazilian Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property. It has been published first in South America by major daily newspapers with very great repercussion, providing as it does a balanced, vigorous, and wise answer to the most perplexing question of our days, that is, what is the right position to take toward the Vatican policy of detente toward Communist regimes? We are proud to reproduce it now, for this manifesto, which has now been published by all the autonomous TFP's throughout the world, by showing Catholics the precise nature of a truly obedient and filial resistance, has opened a new era for Catholics ‑ the era of filial resistance.