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...chief casualty was Opus Dei, the politically oriented Catholic movement whose members can take much of the credit for modernizing Spain's economy. Carrero Blanco had fired all but one Opus Dei minister. Arias Navarro completed the process last week, replacing the one remaining representative of Opus Dei, Foreign Minister Laureano Lopez Rodó, with Spain's Ambassador to France, Pedro Cortina...
Tough on Gibraltar. With few exceptions, the new Cabinet members are notable more for their loyalty than for their innovative tendencies. Perhaps the ablest of the lot is López Rodó, 52, a devoted member of the political-religious organization Opus Dei, to which he contributes his income; he does not drink, hates to travel and resides in an Opus Dei dormitory. López Rodó served as Planning Minister from 1962 to this year, and is one of the men directly responsible for Spain's current economic boom. He is regarded as anti-British...
...influence. Carrero Blanco is believed to maintain an affection for veteran Falangists who fought long ago for Franco; he may well decide that it is time for them to be allowed to reassert themselves. Correspondingly, the power of technocrats affiliated with the modernist, religio-political movement known as Opus Dei might decline...
...especially devoted thinking men, in a crisis situation. They will often clash head-on because of a common devotion." Arrupe presides over a sometimes chaotic variety of individuals, whose special Jesuit intensity, a quality of the breed, often gives them individualistic interpretations of the society's slogan, Ad maiorem Dei gloriam (To the greater glory of God). Some examples...
Bernstein strode in to warm applause and immediately began conducting the mass. The music is a moving interplay of chorus and orchestra, ending with the words of the Agnus Dei, "grant us thy peace...