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...dozen Spanish magazine and book-publishing houses and the nation's leading independent news service. Three Opus Dei members sit on the privy council of Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, the pretender to the Spanish throne, and an Opus Dei priest serves as confessor to Prince Juan Carlos, who is next in line. Moreover, the country's only private university, the Pamplona-based Universidad de Navarra, is an out-and-out Opus Dei institution, and Opus Dei professors are being hired with increasing frequency for chairs in state universities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: God's Octopus | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

...divine majesty? For I am dust and ashes and full of sin, and I am speaking to the living, eternal and true God.' " No amount of penance, no soothing advice from his superiors could still Luther's conviction that he was a miserable, doomed sinner. Although his confessor counseled him to love God, Luther one day burst out, "I do not love God! I hate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protestants: Obedient Rebel | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

...Stabilizer on clarinet: Quiet, reflective, he is the most musically learned of the woodwind players, serves as the soothing, sympathetic father confessor to his neighbors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Orchestras: Psychic Symphony | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

LOGOS: Does it? I quote from a distinguished cleric: "I can't make heads or tails out of a great deal of what Tillich says." The confessor is Dr. Billy Graham himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: RIGHT YOU ARE IF YOU SAY YOU ARE - OBSCURELY | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

...estimated $700 million. In that optimistic frame of mind, Townsend last week announced that he is moving up from president to chairman and chief policy officer, taking the place of retiring George H. Love, who in his own words has served primarily as Townsend's "father confessor" in recent months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executives: Changes at Chrysler | 12/9/1966 | See Source »

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