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Opus Dei, as it is commonly called, is a loosely knit organization of laymen and priests that Escrivá founded less than four decades ago in Madrid. Despite his counsel to "pass unnoticed," it has become the most controversial -and in many ways the most powerful -Spanish ecclesiastical invention since the Jesuits. Many Spaniards call it "Octopus Dei," and in Argentina it is widely believed to be a "holy mafia." Many Jesuits, in particular, consider it heretical in both concept and practice-a sort of Catholic freemasonry. Spain's Diplomat-Journalist Ismael Herráiz charges that Opus...
...Madrid newspapers are owned and edited by Opus Deites, and so are a dozen Spanish magazine and book-publishing houses and the nation's leading independent news service. Three Opus Dei members sit on the privy council of Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, the pretender to the Spanish throne, and an Opus Dei priest serves as confessor to Prince Juan Carlos, who is next in line. Moreover, the country's only private university, the Pamplona-based Universidad de Navarra, is an out-and-out Opus Dei institution, and Opus Dei professors are being hired with...
SPAIN is still a bargain, overcrowded along the Costa Brava and jam-packed in Madrid ("Its season used to be winter," reports Fielding. "Now it is difficult to get hotel accommodations any time. Madrid is going crazy"). Favored this year by the rich and beautiful people: Sotogrande del Guadiaro on the Costa del Sol, a region that boasts 3,200 acres overlooking the Rock of Gibraltar, several fine hotels, two golf courses and fine swimming. Equally In: nearby Marbella (the Duke and Duchess of Windsor will be there...
...charley horse. "It's marvelous,'" said Actress Geraldine Chaplin, 22. Charley's daughter started with yoga when she was 13, so her limbs are used to all the pretzeling. "I don't really go beyond the physical side of it," said Geraldine in her Madrid apartment, which she has set up as home base and gymnasium for rest between films. Does the rest include sleeping on nails? "Oh, no," said she. "Maybe broken glass at the end of a wild party...
...Information Minister Manuel Fraga Iribarne, who administers the press law, for "totalitarian" practices. Life has also been hard for the reporters covering student and worker demonstrations. Earlier this year, Aldo Trippini, U.P.I, bureau chief in Spain, was badly beaten by police armed with truncheons at the Uni versity of Madrid. Two U.S. TV reporters-NBC's Al Rosenfeld and ABC's Har ry Debelius-were picked up by the police while they were trying to cover demonstrations at the University of Barcelona; Debelius' press-accreditation card has not been renewed...