Watched Organizations

In the late 70's, the Vatican is troubled by an incredible politico-financial scandal. In order to cover up the dept of the IOR ("Istituto per le Opere di Religione", the Vatican bank), which would be partly attributable to terrorist far right faction sponsoring, help is requested from the Opus Dei (in english, Work Of God) who, thanks to its nebulous satellite organization network, could easily elude a financial audit by the police authority. In return, the Opus Dei gets the near total control on the various bodies of power of the Holy See, its founder is canonized record time, and its status is modified so that the innumerable cells of its tentacular international structure get around the local ecclesiastic authority and depend only on the pope. Originally a franquist movement, the Opus Dei now aspires to be a lobby-militia acting for the re-establishment of the temporal power of the Church, and the moral control. Besides the Franco husbands, its founder, José Maria Escriva de Balaguer, was the spiritual adviser of Augusto Pinochet. Amongst other campaigns, the Opus Dei promotes a christian fundamentalism reformulated with humanistic liberal semantics.

A mercantile and highly lucrative business, the Holy See is in fact one of the oldest companies of the world, with its president, its clients and partners, its lobbies, its products and services, its marketing department, its human resources, its corporate assets, its growth objectives, its industrial secrets, etc.