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...most elegant birthday party Rome had seen in years. There were black Lancias and motorcycle escorts for the guests. They were attended by pages in medieval red and gold coats and silver-buckled shoes, and listened to festive speeches amid the baroque frescoes in the Palazzo dei Conservatori. They dined in the Palazzo del Quirinale, the former home of Italy's kings, and sipped champagne until late into the night with some of Rome's most beautiful women, including Gina Lollobrigida. The only trouble was that the men who should have been there to celebrate the tenth anniversary...
...organization makes no attempt to tell its members how to do their jobs, nor does it try to influence their political thoughts. "Opus Dei has nothing whatever to do with politics," says President General Escrivá. "It is absolutely foreign to any political, economic, ideologic or cultural tendency or group. The only thing it demands of its members is that they lead a Christian life, trying to live up to the ideal of the Gospel...
Although the presence of so many high-powered Opus Dei men in the Franco government has led to charges that the organization is pro-Franco, others of its members are in outspoken opposition to the regime. Spanish police last year arrested two Opus Dei professors of the Universidad de Navarra for putting up anti-Franco posters, and Opus Dei students joined a nationwide strike for greater campus freedom. Civil Law Professor Amadeo de Fuenmayor, an Opus Deite, risked his neck by going on record with a scathing attack on Franco's much-publicized religious-liberty law, calling it inadequate...
Inevitable Suspicions. Most of the controversy surrounding the organization, in fact, stems from the very success in so many fields of its members, who are generally from the better-off, better-educated stratum of Spanish life. The Jesuits resent Opus Dei's incursions into Spanish education, and old-fashioned businessmen blamed Opus Dei when they lost their clients to brash young Opus Dei competitors. With their air of enthusiastic self-righteousness, Opus Dei members often irritate both laity and clergy-particularly since in many areas they accomplish more than the church. With their insistence that secular life should...
...Msgr. Escrivá, he insists that Opus Dei "never becomes involved in any temporal affair." It is thus not surprising that he attributes the obvious success and power of the organization and its members to divine direction. Opus Dei was founded, he says, "without any human means. It was born small, but it grew little by little, like a living organism, as everything develops in history." The organism he rules is nonetheless an extraordinary one. A measure of its power is that no bishop, archbishop or cardinal-let alone a mere politician-has any power over it. Msgr. Escriv...