By Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
Night view of Times Square in New York. All resources are used for propaganda bright dazzle the passer, anyway attract attention, excite the most diverse ways, to finally convince him to buy something they normally would not buy.
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The famous painting of Fra Angelico, representing Santo Domingo in meditation, is a striking contrast with the first picture. Would it be possible to the population of "urban" Babylonian keep-day the splendid mental strain, which prepares the soul to rise to the highest levels of study and meditation?
Who does not see the modern agitation away the vast majority of men gathered in God like to study and pray? In heaven, says St. Augustine, "resting contemplate, contemplating love and loving praise. This will be our end without end. " (De Civit. Dei, I. XXII. C, 30, No. 5)
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Does the contemporary agitation prepares a man to understand and desire this happiness?
Catholicism, No. 120, December 1960
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