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"tag:c.im,2024-10-01:objectId=211718143:objectType=Conversation", "content": "<p>Arne Panula was right <br />— a new “Great Awakening” was coming. </p><p>But it wouldn’t rise up from the student population. </p><p>Instead, it would emerge out of the dark-money networks. </p><p>The recruitment of Leonard Leo would cement ties between Opus Dei and the U.S. Supreme Court that had been developing for decades. </p><p>Antonin Scalia had once been at the center of this relationship <br />— the Justice had given talks at the Catholic Information Center and at the Reston Study Center, <br />which was the male numerary residence in Washington’s suburbs that hosted regular get-togethers for Opus Dei members. </p><p>Only the year before, Scalia had also attended an Opus Dei retreat at the prelature’s $10 million, 844-acre property near the Shenandoah Mountains. </p><p>His children and grandchildren attended Opus Dei schools. </p><p>He was best friends with Father Malcolm Kennedy, an Opus Dei priest who often came around for dinner at Scalia’s house, <br />after which the two would often belt out Broadway tunes. </p><p>But with Leo and his network of dark money, Opus Dei’s penetration of Washington’s political and judicial worlds would now reach unprecedented levels. </p><p>That Christmas, like many Christmases before it, the Supreme Court hosted its annual holiday party. </p><p>As always, Father Malcolm was seated at the piano, playing carols for the assembled dignitaries, <br />having been invited by Scalia. </p><p>As he played, the Justices <br />— the most powerful legal figures in America <br />— sang along to the tune played by the Opus Dei priest. </p><p>It was a dark portent for what was to come.</p><p>Leonard Leo&#39;s contribution to this reshaping of the Court would soon involve much more than providing a list of amenable conservative justices. </p><p>Within weeks of Scalia’s death in February 2016, <br />he began to mobilize hundreds of millions of dollars to make his dream of reshaping the Court <br />— and wider society <br />— a reality. </p><p>While his appointment to the board of the CIC was still relatively recent, <br />in reality Leo had been juggling several side hustles during his more than twenty years at the Federalist Society <br />— usually at nonprofit organizations linked to Catholic causes close to his heart. </p><p>In 2008, he had become the chair of &quot;Students for Life of America&quot;, an organization conceived along the same lines as the Federalist Society, <br />but dedicated to setting up local chapters at high schools and colleges across the country <br />devoted to <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/fighting\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>fighting</span></a> <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/abortion\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>abortion</span></a>. </p><p>In 2012, he joined the &quot;Catholic Association&quot;, a small nonprofit dedicated to promoting the Catholic voice in the public arena that had been set up by the Opus Dei activist Neil Corkery. </p><p>Leo’s entrance coincided with a sudden upswing in the finances of the Catholic Association, <br />which hitherto had raised next to no money <br />— but which suddenly saw almost $2 million flood in. </p><p>The money was used to set up two advocacy groups. </p><p>One was called the &quot;Catholic Association Foundation&quot;, which soon became a conduit for funding various media initiatives <br />— including a radio station in Maine, where a referendum on same-sex marriage legislation was on the ballot. </p><p>The other was called &quot;Catholic Voices&quot;, which had been started by <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/Jack\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Jack</span></a> <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/Valero\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Valero</span></a>, Opus Dei’s spokesperson in London, <br />as a way to shift media narratives concerning Catholic issues. </p><p>Within months of being set up, “volunteers” from the group had given interviews or published comment pieces on a variety of issues, <br />including abortion and same-sex marriage, <br />in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. </p><p>At one conference hosted by the organization, a priest from Opus Dei was on hand to offer the benediction.</p>", "contentMap": { "en": "<p>Arne Panula was right <br />— a new “Great Awakening” was coming. </p><p>But it wouldn’t rise up from the student population. </p><p>Instead, it would emerge out of the dark-money networks. </p><p>The recruitment of Leonard Leo would cement ties between Opus Dei and the U.S. Supreme Court that had been developing for decades. </p><p>Antonin Scalia had once been at the center of this relationship <br />— the Justice had given talks at the Catholic Information Center and at the Reston Study Center, <br />which was the male numerary residence in Washington’s suburbs that hosted regular get-togethers for Opus Dei members. 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rel=\"tag\">#<span>fighting</span></a> <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/abortion\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>abortion</span></a>. </p><p>In 2012, he joined the &quot;Catholic Association&quot;, a small nonprofit dedicated to promoting the Catholic voice in the public arena that had been set up by the Opus Dei activist Neil Corkery. </p><p>Leo’s entrance coincided with a sudden upswing in the finances of the Catholic Association, <br />which hitherto had raised next to no money <br />— but which suddenly saw almost $2 million flood in. </p><p>The money was used to set up two advocacy groups. </p><p>One was called the &quot;Catholic Association Foundation&quot;, which soon became a conduit for funding various media initiatives <br />— including a radio station in Maine, where a referendum on same-sex marriage legislation was on the ballot. </p><p>The other was called &quot;Catholic Voices&quot;, which had been started by <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/Jack\" class=\"mention 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