text: So at one time the Jesuits were the Opus Dei of the 1800's. Could Opus Dei become the modernizers of the late 21st century?
  
  Odd that my Jesuit HS religion teacher was a member of the French Communist Party and threw out the text book ((rather dramatically and literally) in favor a Marxist analysis of the history of the French Catholic Church. This was the 1950's but no parents objected. And we certainly enjoyed the course, and the dramatics.