Opus Dei was revealed in the Dan Brown book "Angels and Demons" and the subsequent movie! the
gop warned that the vatican would run the country, if JFK was elected! Now we have a convicted sexual predator, convicted fraudster and convicted felon as the gop candidate of POTUS abetted by extremist right wing catholics on the Roberts stench court! somehow the magas welcome the vatican to their cult!
Opus Dei was revealed in the Dan Brown book "Angels and Demons" and the subsequent movie! the
gop warned that the vatican would run the country, if JFK was elected! Now we have a convicted sexual predator, convicted fraudster and convicted felon as the gop candidate of POTUS abetted by extremist right wing catholics on the Roberts stench court! somehow the magas welcome the vatican to their cult!
My information on OD comes from members who have left the OD cult mindset and their spiritual elitism. It comes from writers like the late Maria del Carmen Tapia, whom Escriva tossed out as being “incompetent” and “useless.” Escriva was known to have been the proverbial Boss from Hell who verbally abused and berated the people who worked for him. He belittled and berated the numeraries who worked for him.
I don’t consider Dan Brown a particularly reliable source. Brown is not a good writer, and he took seriously the Priory of Sion hoax which was created by a French con man in the 1950s and swallowed wholesale by the writers of “Holy Blood, Holy Grail.” Bart Ehrman does a fairly good job at debunking this whole fiction. In The con man, Pierre Plantard, also put forged documents in the French National Library. Opus Dei isn’t a religious order, it’s a lay led personal prelature that has priests who are associated with it, but they do not have their own religious or monastic orders. Opus Dei’s real problems are its secretiveness, its attempt to merge religious and political power, and its cultish treatment of its ordinary members.
The reason why Opus Dei came to have such influence was because it had the money to bail out the Vatican when the Vatican was experiencing severe financial problems in the early 1980s due to financial mismanagement. OD bailed out the Vatican financially in return for which they were recognized as an official personal prelature and Josemaria Escriva was canonized. I don’t regard Escriva as a saint for his mistreatment of his employees, and don’t regard JPII as a saint because of his refusal to acknowledge the scope and extent of sexual abuse in the church.
Opus Dei was revealed in the Dan Brown book "Angels and Demons" and the subsequent movie! the
gop warned that the vatican would run the country, if JFK was elected! Now we have a convicted sexual predator, convicted fraudster and convicted felon as the gop candidate of POTUS abetted by extremist right wing catholics on the Roberts stench court! somehow the magas welcome the vatican to their cult!
My information on OD comes from members who have left the OD cult mindset and their spiritual elitism. It comes from writers like the late Maria del Carmen Tapia, whom Escriva tossed out as being “incompetent” and “useless.” Escriva was known to have been the proverbial Boss from Hell who verbally abused and berated the people who worked for him. He belittled and berated the numeraries who worked for him.
I don’t consider Dan Brown a particularly reliable source. Brown is not a good writer, and he took seriously the Priory of Sion hoax which was created by a French con man in the 1950s and swallowed wholesale by the writers of “Holy Blood, Holy Grail.” Bart Ehrman does a fairly good job at debunking this whole fiction. In The con man, Pierre Plantard, also put forged documents in the French National Library. Opus Dei isn’t a religious order, it’s a lay led personal prelature that has priests who are associated with it, but they do not have their own religious or monastic orders. Opus Dei’s real problems are its secretiveness, its attempt to merge religious and political power, and its cultish treatment of its ordinary members.
The reason why Opus Dei came to have such influence was because it had the money to bail out the Vatican when the Vatican was experiencing severe financial problems in the early 1980s due to financial mismanagement. OD bailed out the Vatican financially in return for which they were recognized as an official personal prelature and Josemaria Escriva was canonized. I don’t regard Escriva as a saint for his mistreatment of his employees, and don’t regard JPII as a saint because of his refusal to acknowledge the scope and extent of sexual abuse in the church.