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Since its founding in 1928, Opus Dei has become the most controversial-and in many ways the most powerful-church organization in Spain since the Jesuits. With its 20,000 members, the Spanish branch is the largest and oldest of Opus Dei's 68 branches around the world...
Known as Schuyler Hall, this singular bastion of domestic tranquillity for males is operated by Opus Dei (the Work of God), an international organization of zealous Roman Catholic laymen and priests. Best known for its influence in modernizing the economy of Franco Spain, Opus Dei has about 2,000 members in the U.S. Schuyler Hall is the largest of five student residences operated by the organization near American colleges. Although two resident priests celebrate Mass every day, only 60% of Schuyler's 75 residents are Catholic; three are Jewish, and there is one black. More than half the students...
...Catholics. They want to preserve you from sin," scoffs one junior, a Catholic himself. As a group, the students are well above average in ability and politically quite conservative; they tend to shun radical activism. But each weekend some 20 residents take turns doing volunteer tutoring at an Opus Dei study center for younger students. Mostly, the residents' zest for service is inner-directed, toward caring for sick Schuylerites or helping dorm mates who have dropped behind in class...
...eclipse, the Falange has long raged at the rise of the pragmatic, outward-looking Opus Dei, whose members dominate Franco's 19-member Cabinet. As many conservatives in and out of the Falange see it, the efforts by the envied "holy Mafia"-also known as "Octopus Dei"-to build bridges to the rest of the world, Communist and nonCommunist, are directly responsible for Spain's increasing problems with all manner of separatists and dissidents at home. In their mass rallies, the Falange faithful often take up a pointed chant: "Franco si, Opus...
...strength of that endorsement should become apparent in the next couple of months, when Franco is expected to respond to the military's demands that he reshuffle his 19-man cabinet. Among those likely to be shuffled out are the more liberal Opus Dei ministers who have been pushing the pragmatic, outward-looking foreign policy that-as the hard-liners see it-has led to permissiveness and the emergence of troublesome dissenters at home...