Inevitably, perhaps, Cardinal O'Connor, through his outspokenness on issues ranging from opposition to abortion to defense of immigrants' rights, has established a tone some people now associate with the office itself.
Gatherings of differing sizes and intensities have been called by various entities, ranging from opposition parties to the trade unions.If there is a thread running through them, it is a general discontent with President Michel Martelly's 27-month-old administration.
But there is remarkable distortion – on themes ranging from opposition protests to allegations of collaboration by Lech Wałęsa, Solidarity's founding leader (evidence suggests Wałęsa agreed to collaborate with secret police for a few years in the 1970s; his dalliance receives copious additional spin, to ensure that Solidarity's original heroes are dethroned).
The class was broken into 24 videos, with topics ranging from opposition research to budgeting and fundraising to mobilizing volunteers.
The company has faced challenges in many parts of Europe since it launched on the continent in 2011, ranging from opposition from local taxi drivers to restrictions from local authorities seeking to make it comply with rules on labor rights, licensing and safety issues.
But those ranged in opposition to the change threw up a myriad situations in which couples would end up being fined should one spouse not know the full financial affairs of the other or should the couple temporarily separate.
Church and state were increasingly separated, authority in the church was centralized in Rome, and the church was ranged in opposition to some of the dominant movements of the modern age, including liberal capitalism, communism, extreme nationalism, and the racism that culminated in Nazism.
But he said that he felt he had been vilified for his support of conservative causes, which have ranged from opposition to the health care bill and pushing for small government and low taxes, to questioning whether climate change is caused by humans.
Moves by Brazil to introduce resolutions in favour of gay rights ran into a wall of opposition ranging from conservative American groups to the governments of Egypt and Pakistan.
The second is that while Ahmadinejad still marshals potentially victorious forces, including the Revolutionary Guards and the Basij militia, he now faces a daunting array of opposition ranging across the political spectrum.
The opposition, ranging from conservative Catholics in the National Action Party PANN) to ex-communists in the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), plus a few Greens and members of the hard-to-classify Workers Party, was set to seize all the main congressional posts.
