In 1940, General Franco appointed him president of the mass movement, Catholic Action.
He joined Catholic Action in 1938, and enrolled at the University of Buenos Aires, becoming President of the Students' Association.
The Mafia was present in the area but quiescent; Tommaso Spadaro, a boy with whom he played ping-pong in the neighborhood Catholic Action recreation center, would later become a notorious Mafia smuggler and killer, but mafiosi were not a major presence in his childhood.
He also served as the president of the Slovenian section of the Catholic Action, and chief editor of the main conservative newspaper Slovenec.
Armed with a papal decree banning Catholics to vote for any candidate allied with Communists, Sicily's Cardinal Ernesto Ruffini sent Catholic Action groups from door to door to campaign against Milazzo.
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Hepworth has a degree in political science and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Adelaide in 1982 with a thesis about Catholic Action entitled "The Movement Revisited: A South Australian Perspective".
From 1989 to 2006, Ošlak has worked as an official at the Slovene section of the Catholic Action for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gurk.