#Leonard #Leo and his ilk would soon become a bridge connecting the prelature with important people on Capitol Hill
— and the world of dark money populated by secretive billionaires with a deeply conservative agenda.

Together, they would form a coalition
— unified by their political connections, religious fervor, and money
— that would reshape American society and destroy many hard-won civil rights.

In Father Arne’s view, his successful renewal of the apostolic mission of the bookshop and chapel on K Street was all part of a
“Great Awakening” that was about to wash over the United States
— and the world.

In the wake of the "Occupy Wall Street" movement and the general disgruntlement of young people following the financial crisis,
he saw this “Great Awakening” starting on university campuses,
where Opus Dei had again begun to plant its flag with what he called
“counter-institutions” such as the Catholic Information Center’s #Leonine #Forum and the #Witherspoon #Institute at Princeton.

“It isn’t only a spiritual awakening that’s coming,” Arne Panula explained.

“Students leave these schools with no jobs, no intellectual sustenance of worth, and a huge financial debt . . . students are being duped.
There will be a utilitarian reaction to that chasm between what they’re promised and what they’re actually taught
— market correction, of sorts, in education.

But the deeper reaction is more personal.

It’s about betrayal.

Some of these students come to realize that there’s a world out there that they never knew existed.

They’ve been purposefully sealed off from it by their teachers and other authorities.

That begs for reaction.

They’ve been sold a bill of secular progressive goods!”

Opus Dei would help guide them toward this new world.