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...Opus Dei and Politics...
...with great interest that I read your article related to Spanish politics, "The Unsolved Problems of Succession" [Dec. 11]. In speculating about the political future of Spain, you suggest that "a possibility is a coalition between the army and Opus Dei...
...possibility of such a coalition just does not make sense, for the simple reason that Opus Dei has nothing to do with politics, as its ends are exclusively spiritual...
Your so-called definition of Opus Dei as "a mystical network of Catholic laymen and clerics whose members combine spiritual discipline with temporal progress" is not only unfortunate, but it is also unfair to me personally since I belong to Opus Dei I have never aspired to combine this "cocktail" of the spiritual with temporal progress nor am I subjected to any kind of discipline or connected with any "mystical network.' Belonging to Opus Dei concerns only my private life and does not affect at all my opinions or my political activity for which I alone am responsible...
...Spain's Minister for Economic Development, had the opportunity to read the story discussing the problems of the succession, since the Dec. 11 issue was banned in his country. An estimated 25,000 copies of the story were circulated by private groups, however, including the politically influential Opus Dei...