journalist
and author.
Lernoux was born into a comfortable Roman Catholic family in California and excelled in school. She enrolled in the University of Southern California
in the late 1950s and, after being nominated to Phi Beta Kappa
, qualified as a journalist for the United States Information Agency
(USIA), a government arm devoted to promoting U.S. policy overseas.
Lernoux began working in Latin America
in 1961, just before the Second Vatican Council
.
And many of the people who buy or found banks have had no experience in banking at all. If they can learn it, so can we.
In contrast, traditional Catholic churches serve vast numbers of people who have little or nothing in common, and they are often impersonal supermarkets for the sacraments.
At stake are two different visions of faith, the Church of Caesar, powerful and rich; and the Church of Christ - loving, poor and spiritually rich.
Opus Dei is an efficient machine run to achieve world power.
And the Third World will continue to beckon to the First, reminding it of the Galilean vision of Christian solidarity.