Word: sociedad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...their business affairs. The six brothers of the Braun-Menendez family, ranging in age from 55 to 68, meet in a paneled Buenos Aires board room under a portrait of their late father Mauricio. Around the table each in turn stands up to discuss the fortunes and policies of Sociedad Anonima Importadora y Exportadora de la Patagonia. Something like a Hudson's Bay Co. of the Southern Hemisphere, "La Anonima" controls most of the commerce and communications in Patagonia, a wild and windswept region that sprawls nearly 1,500 miles south of Buenos Aires and stretches almost...