Lernoux, Penny. People of God: The Struggle for World Catholicism. New York: Viking, 1989. 466 pages.

Penny Lernoux was a practicing Catholic and prize-winning journalist who lived in Bogota until shortly before her death from lung cancer in October, 1989 at the age of 49. She moved to Latin America in 1962, first working for the U.S. Information Agency and then as a bureau chief and correspondent for Copley News Service. In 1974 she began free-lancing; her work has appeared in Newsweek, The Nation, Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, Business Week, and the National Catholic Reporter.

Much of "People of God" is of more interest to those who follow Catholicism closely, while NameBase is focused on Catholicism only as it affects politics and the power structure generally. But the last half of the book has sections on the Knights of Malta (also known as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta or SMOM), Opus Dei (called the "Holy Mafia" by its critics), Communion and Liberation (a lay movement in Italy), and Tradition, Family, and Property (an extremist cult in South America). For Lernoux, these groups are among those struggling for the soul of the Church, and represent a counterreformation, known as the "Restoration," that threatens to reverse the gains of Vatican II.
ISBN 0-670-81529-2

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