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By A.R.
An educational program for senior managerial staff is being launched under the aegis of Opus Dei, a powerful organization of lay Catholics, Gazeta Wyborcza reports. Participants will most likely include politicians of the two largest political parties in the parliament: the Law and Justice (PiS) and Civic Platform (PO).
Opus Dei, or "Work of God" in Latin, is a hierarchic institution within the Catholic Church, founded in Madrid in 1928 under the pontificate of Pope Pius XI on the initiative of Josemaria Escrivá de Balaguer. According to Opus Dei data, it had 85,000 members in 2005. Poland has about 300 Opus Dei members. Its fundamental assumptions include loyalty to the papacy and the chief objective of the organization is fostering holiness through work. The Advanced Management Program (AMP) for Poles is organized by the Spanish IESE Business School from Barcelona, an academy of management at the University of Navarra belonging to Opus Dei.
According to information obtained by Gazeta Wyborcza journalists, participants of the courses will be experienced businesspeople occupying top-ranking positions at firms and commanding at least seven years' experience. The cost of the course is 16,000 euros. The paper reports that interest in the courses is high in Poland. The introductory meeting was attended by 200 and 10 have declared their intention to participate. Graduates of the AMP program in Spain include Cezary Mech, the deputy minister of finance, and Alicja Kornasiewicz, the deputy minister of the Treasury in the government of Jerzy Buzek.
The influence of Opus Dei is also visible in the government. Alberto Lozano Plantoff, a member of Opus Dei, is an adviser to Teresa Lubiñska, the former minister of finance. According to Newsweek sources, Jerzy Polaczek, the minister of infrastructure, is a supernumerary or rightful member of Opus Dei.
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