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...Republic-which still operate underground, still hold the sympathies of many workers. The second sphere is the Christian Democratic Movement, a loose coalition of Catholic groups ranging from the conservative Accion Catolica, which supports the regime, to the left-leaning Catholic labor movements, which oppose it. (Members of Opus Dei can be found in all groups.) The third is the Monarchists, well organized but without mass popular support. And above them all is the army, leaning at the moment toward the monarchists but capable of stepping in at any moment with a pronunciamiento on the pretext of forestalling violence...
...Opus Dei. López Rodó and López Bravo are two of the most prominent among the rising lights who share membership in a remarkable and growing religious organization known as Opus Dei...
Founded by a Spanish priest named Josemaría Escrivá in 1928, Sociedad Sacerdotal de la Santa Cruz y del Opus Dei is an "association of Catholic faithful" that seeks to fill a vacuum that Spain's Catholic Church had long neglected: the lack of a means for developing an aggressive, dedicated, militant laity. Escrivá wanted to create, much as Ignatius Loyola had done with his Society of Jesus in the 16th century, spiritual shock troops to rekindle the true spirit of Christianity within the church. But instead of retiring into monasteries, he felt, men with...
...Tens of thousands of Spaniards from all walks of life have taken solace from Opus' sessions by reading more about God and the church, by simple communal association, and by studying the things that interest them-whether business administration, bullfighting, coal mining or early English literature. Opus Dei operates a sophisticated commerce school in Barcelona...
...only "free" (i.e., nongovernment) university, in Pamplona. Last year 15,000 Spaniards attended its theology seminars, 12,000 spent their vacations in its centers of "spiritual retirement," and 20,000 children enrolled in its 143 summer camps. Driven to a fervor that is positively un-Spanish, Opus Dei members have risen to control of one of Spain's largest banks, many newspapers and magazines, a news agency, a jazz club-and to more than a dozen positions of real power within the Franco government...