Francisco Tatad, a member of the influential Catholic group Opus Dei and a vice presidential contender, has made personal ethics his campaign issue.
Perhaps the main factor is that, despite having all the credentials of a hardline Chilean conservative (such as membership of Opus Dei, a Catholic movement), he has managed to make the voters forget that he is from the right.
Obviously the vision was not "entire" in the sense that it answered every question, since it required subsequent inspirations to demonstrate to Escriva that there should be a women's branch to Opus Dei (that came in 1930) and that Opus Dei should also include a body of priests, the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross (1943).
Italian financial police detained Gianluca Baldassarri, a former executive at Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, as part of a probe into the bank, fearing he could leave the country.
Vino Hirata and Scala Dei are a short taxi ride from the Roppongi entertainment district.
He is a devout Catholic (a member of Opus Dei, "Da Vinci Code" fans) who urges O'Neill to pray regularly and confess his sins.
In a December 2004 interview, the number-two official of Opus Dei, Monsignor Fernando Ocariz, a Spanish theologian who has served since 1986 as a consultor to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican's doctrinal agency, explained that Escriva's understanding of the "universal call to holiness" had two dimensions, subjective and objective.
Escriva strongly insisted that Opus Dei is not a religious order, thus it is not comparable to the Franciscans or the Dominicans.
From that point until June last year, Monte dei Paschi put together a restructuring plan aiming at bringing the bank back into the black by 2015.
The Tablet of London, a well-known English Catholic publication, recently published a series of jokes about various groups within the Catholic Church, and here's how the one on Opus Dei goes: How many members of Opus Dei does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
And why would you believe that a guy named Sheldon is running Opus Dei, anyway?
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In November, when it asked for more aid, Italy's Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena reported a loss of 1.7bn euros for the first nine months of the year.
As Escriva described it, Opus Dei is not supposed to be a clergy-driven enterprise.
Though perhaps a bit catty, the joke makes a good point, which is that Opus Dei has sometimes been better at explaining what it is not rather than what it is.
The Bank of Italy said last week that it only became aware of the "true nature" of the derivatives contracts when Monte dei Paschi's new management found a previously unknown document relating to the contracts in a safe last October.
Members of Opus Dei date the group's foundation to October 2, 1928, when Josemar'a Escriva, then a young Spanish priest making a retreat at a Vincentian monastery in Madrid, experienced a vision, revealing to him "whole and entire" God's wish for what would later become Opus Dei.
Among the most striking of the architectural drawings on display is the study for the plan of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini (1559-60), a sheet in which one can read the layers of overdrawing and erasure through which Michelangelo refined his design, transforming the sheet into a palimpsest of rejected ideas.
Despite being more opulent and peaceful than Villa dei Mulini, Napoleon reportedly never spent more than a few hours at a time here.
"Opus Dei does not act, its members do" is a frequent mantra.
The recent takeover by Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena of Banca Agricola Mantovana has created a precedent for change among its fellow co-operatives.
Finally, each loft received, as a gift, one bottle each of these four lovely reds: Gary Farrell Pinot Noir, Shafer Vineyards Merlot and Rubicon from California and Scala Dei Priorat from Spain (which was our favorite in a Priorat tasting in 2005, by the way).
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In later years Opus Dei has fought similar battles to insist that it is not a "lay movement, " because it includes clergy.
Or other local specialties like marzipan frutta martorana, or ossi dei morti (bones of the dead) or giuggiolena, a kind of sesame torrone.
Italian actors picked up the best actor and actress categories - Luigi Lo Cascio won for Luce dei miei Occhi (Light of My Eyes), about a lonely young man and his obsession with a single mother.
He says that Monte dei Paschi is the only institution among the big Italian banks where a foundation has majority control.
Fabrizio Viola, chief executive of Monte dei Paschi who was brought into the bank to turn it round a year ago, said on Monday he thought the acquisition of Antonveneta was "expensive" but he had seen no evidence of bribes being paid to secure the deal, a suggestion put forward by prosecutors.
It was a big deal on the drama side because it was his first away from the DEI Incorporated, as they call it.
Monte dei Paschi, seeking to staunch an outpouring of allegations surrounding its request for a second state bailout, has admitted the use of derivatives forced it to demand extra help but insisted that it has "no evidence" that bribes were behind the costly acquisition of a local rival that undermined its capital strength.
This week, the Bank of Italy released a statement in Italian saying that the "true nature of certain transactions regarding the Monte dei Paschi di Siena reported in the press has emerged only recently, following the discovery of documents kept hidden to the supervisory authority and brought to light by the new management of MPS".
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