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To: Neocon who wrote (7095)	5/6/1999 4:43:00 PM
From: Yaacov	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Neocon, Opus Dei is the "layman" arm of Jesuits.

To: Neocon who wrote (7095)	5/7/1999 6:13:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

Agreed --a first?! As a teenager, I was educated in a Jesuit High School and I don't feel as if I've been indoctrinated with Nazi's venomous rhetoric --quite the contrary! As far as the political clout of Opus Dei goes, there's no point in establishing a causation between such an elitist clique and the broader electorate: we're still living under a ''one-man-one-vote'' electoral regime, after all! Yet, the Opus Dei has understood that they don't need to ''brainwash'' any and every voter --that's wasteful. Instead, they'll manage to get their henchmen in key positions throughout the higher layers of the economic/political/ideological fabric. To put it bluntly, the Opus Dei doesn't need your taxi driver as an insider! From a larger perspective, I think that the Catholic Church has evolved since the WWII dark period even if the legacy of the Vatican II Council is severely jeopardized by the current pontificate... Yet, it's clear that the Church's higher authorities are sensitive to the spiritual melancholy that has seized most Europeans... Hence, their agenda is crystal-clear: Europeans must stick back to their historical, genuine roots, that is Christianity. The time is no longer for moral concessions or permissiveness. A burst of virtue is urgent! That's the kind of talk you hear from Eminences such as Mgr. Cardinal Lustiger, Archbishop of Paris: he was recently interviewed by French editor-at-large Alain Duhamel on the French State Channel France 3 and it was clear to me that he was not in favor of a US-like religious melting-pot. Remember that a difference between the U.S. and Western Europe lies in the secular power of the Church --the Caesar/God divide has always been wishful thinking. On this side of the Atlantic, Bishops, Cardinals, and Nuncios are important people: political leaders from christian-democrat parties listen to them. Gustave.