A ton of articles about Rick Santorum and Opus Dei here:

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5. This is marvelous! I was just telling my husband yesterday

that I think you could draw a line from Santorum/Gingrich/ Scalea right back through the Contras and Oliver North to the Vatican Ratline.

Ratline is a reference to the rope that runs to the crow's mast on a ship - the last way out when the ship is going down.

I'm reading "Unholy Trinity" by Aarons and Loftus, and they show some pretty wild connections between the Vatican and our intelligence agencies. The real kicker is that the Soviet Union infiltrated most of these groups from the word go! Even Dick Nixon was involved, which may be what he was so afraid would come out back in 1972!

Opus Dei was tied to the overthrow of Allende. Opus Dei operatives permeated the governments of Franco and Pinochet!

BTW - this type of Catholic believes any evil is justifies in order to preserve their version of Holy Mother Church! Lying, murder, torture; if it's for the greater good, God approves!