20 Mar 2004
Opus Dei

Opus Dei is a rather secretive group of conservative (and I mean somewhere to the right of Ghengis Khan) Catholics, apparently bent on changing the course of American (and to some extent, other countries, esp., in western Europe) policies to fit with their narrow worldview. These are the kind of people who think that the Spanish Inquisition was a great idea!

They really hadn't come right out and said what they were up to before, but this article from the Boston Globe kinda scares me:

The Crusaders

A powerful faction of religious and political conservatives is waging a latter-day counterreformation, battling widespread efforts to liberalize the American Catholic Church. And it has the clout and the connections to succeed. [from The Boston Globe via MyAppleMenu]

They're talking of "relatively bloodless civil war" and "morally justified revolution" over issues like birth control and stem cell research ... These aren't raving redneck fundies, either (well, except in spirit). They're rich, politically well-connected and usually very, very quiet.

Make of it what you will: it's certainly something to keep an eye on.

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