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...prospect has led a wide range of political and religious groups to band together in opposition to the government. In an effort to reassure Sudan's principal backers, Egypt and the U.S., that it is not seeking a leftist revolution, the opposition is proposing to set up a secular democracy that would be overseen by a triumvirate during its first five transitional years. "It is no longer a struggle between the Christian and pagan south [of Sudan] and the Muslim north," observes one of the President's opponents. "It is now a struggle between all political groups...
...rare U.S. TV performance, brings a few moments of passion to her role as Yelena. In one scene, she chillingly describes the courtroom cheers that greeted a death sentence handed out to some Jewish friends charged with treason. But Jackson too seems weighed down by the burden of secular sainthood. In a typical exchange, Sakharov laments the expulsion of his stepdaughter from the university. "They're punishing our children for what we do," he says. Responds Yelena: "What we do is right...
Opus, in turn, offers the church a corps of well-educated, disciplined, profoundly committed Catholics who, as laity in ordinary jobs, can penetrate society in ways that priests cannot. In the Opus concept, each lay Catholic is to sanctify the secular world and his own career...
...nothing in Catholicism quite like Opus Dei. Its membership includes both men and women, though in separated branches. It includes priests, but more significant, it makes demands of its laity more often associated with priests and nuns. Yet it is not a religious order, since its lay members hold secular jobs. It is both highly centralized and decentralized: men's and women's General Councils in Rome, appointed by Del Portillo, set policy and assign national directors, but chapters in each nation plan and finance their own operations...
There are three categories within Opus Dei. The leaders are the university-educated "numeraries," about 30% of the total membership, who make commitments to lifelong celibacy and obedience, turn over their secular incomes, live in communities and take all the course work needed to be priests, although few are ordained. "Associates" (20%) are celibate but do not live in communities or do advanced theological study. "Supernumeraries" (50%) are not celibate and follow modified commitments. Each category contains roughly equal numbers of men and women. There are also 700,000 "cooperators," like 1972 Vice-Presidential Nominee Sargent Shriver...