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A friend told the couple about the group while they were on vacation in the Ivory Coast in the mid-1970s. Intrigued, they decided to check it out when they returned to New York and, finding it to be a "connection between the theory and the practice" of their Catholic...
That is not to say all is well. "The country trusts him with the economy, but he does not seem to pay that much attention to social issues," says José Oviedo, a sociologist at a local Catholic university. That's just what soured voters on his first term: prosperity that...
In early March, Elizabeth Heil, an arts-administration graduate student at Columbia University, was watching previews in a movie theater on Manhattan's Upper West Side when she cracked up inappropriately. The trailer was for the movie The Da Vinci Code, directed by Ron Howard and scheduled to open May...
The Da Vinci Code's Opus Dei--a powerful, ultraconservative Roman Catholic faction riddled with sadomasochistic ritual, one of whose members commits serial murder in pursuit of a church-threatening secret--is obviously not reflective of the real-life organization (although author Dan Brown's website states the portrayal was...
Yet Mora and his colleagues have inaugurated a countertrend, in part by breaking their organization's historical silence. They spoke at length on record to John Allen, a respected print and television Vatican commentator, and offered him unprecedented access to Opus Dei records and personnel. In November he responded with...