Spiritual Retreat

The clerical organization Opus Dei participates in the national cabinet to a significant degree, and Cardinal Antonio Caggiano, pictured, who is also a military bishop, signs Ongania's decree of assumption to the presidency and participates in all the official ceremonies. Ongania and a group of prominent generals go on spiritual retreats where they undergo the influence of the Catholic fundamentalist groups Verbe and La Cite Catholique, both of which originated in France.

Horacio Verbitsky's Confessions of an Argentine Dirty Warrior