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that is a good connection.

they do like to advertise their power.

first time anon heard about opus dei was in the

The Da Vinci Code

https://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/08/magazine/the-secret-world-of-opus-dei.html

Henry Kamm is The Times's bureau chief in Rome. N AN IMPOSING MANSION NEAR THE VILLA Borghese park in Rome, Msgr. Alvaro del Portillo y Diez de Sollano - the head of the international religious society known as Opus Dei - basks in his new title of Prelate, which Pope John Paul II bestowed on him a little more than a year ago. The 69-year-old Spaniard, who now wears a golden bishop's ring along with his silver pectoral cross, was so affable as to make me almost forget that I had been put off for nearly a year before being granted the rare privilege of a meeting. Opus Dei is not anxious to be written about by nonmembers.

But Opus Dei denies that it is secretive. Secrecy? exclaimed Monsignor del Portillo with a laugh. In what? When I asked whether Opus Dei had a secret prayer, he dropped to his knees and, motioning to a young Spanish priest accompanying him to do the same, he intoned the prayer, called Preces. Then, alone, he reverently kissed the floor. Perhaps it is a question of bashfulness, he said, resuming his seat. To kiss the ground is a holy matter, and they don't want to be seen doing it.

In the pontificate of John Paul II, the Jesuits were, until recently, the Roman Catholic organization most visibly at the center of controversy. The traditionalist Pope was clearly upset over what he saw as their excessive liberalism. Now that he has allowed them to elect a new general, the Rev. Peter- Hans Kolvenbach, ending an extraordinary period of direct papal rule, that quarrel appears to have been resolved. But what has lasted longer than John Paul's differences with the Jesuits is a less public but no less intense controversy over Opus Dei. The dispute has been far less in the public eye because Opus Dei (which, like the much older Society of Jesus, is of Spanish origin) marches in step with the conservative Pope.

John Paul II's displays of favor to The Work - as its American members and supporters reverently call the lay organization whose Latin name means God's Work - have caused chagrin among liberal churchmen, an unhappiness that has been muted not only because most remain disciplined priests even when angry but because so little is known about The Work's internal workings. The church has no idea what Opus Dei is up to, said an American priest studying in Rome, echoing a view widely held by priests and laymen not sympathetic to Opus Dei. Critics fear that John Paul's high esteem for Opus Dei might confer power over church policy-making on the group.

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very long article too long to post.