Arnaldo Vidigal Xavier da Silveir belonged, both on the paternal side and on the maternal side, to families known in Brazil for their prominence, especially in politics, in law and entrepreneurship. He was born in 1929 in Sao Paulo, Brazil where he studied with the Jesuit fathers, first in
St. Louis College, then in
Central Seminar of the Immaculate Conception.
He later entered the Faculty of Law of Catholic University of São Paulo, dove, In the 1956, he graduated in Legal and Social Sciences. He practiced as a lawyer until his last days, also managing the legal department of the well-known construction company Adolpho Lindenberg. He was a professor of Propedeutics of History and then say Morality and Sociology in the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters Saint Benedict, and in the Faculty of Economic Sciences Heart of Jesus, both from the Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo.
He was one of the founders of the culture monthly Catholicism, published under the aegis of Msgr. Antonio de Castro Mayer, bishop of Campos, and author of important studies on the Magisterium of the Church, the Conciliar Magisterium and pontifical infallibility. Among his numerous writings, aimed primarily at the defense of the Catholic Faith and Orthodoxy, without any concern on his part about career or academic prestige, we remember: Read More