Opus Dei came out of the fascist era in Spain. It’s not going away any time soon.
, a 2003 thriller in which the primary villain is an Opus Dei assassin, an albino monk who kills to protect his cult. But Opus Dei is an actual Catholic group still active today, and while it has no albino monks , its real history contains enough dark deeds—as detailed in a newly published exposé by the British journalist Gareth Gore—that it needs no help from fiction to be fit for outlandish conspiracy theories.
Gore, a financial journalist, took a follow-the-money approach to his investigations, and after five years of reporting, he concluded that Opus Dei remains “a very powerful organization to this day”—particularly in the United States. The modern Opus Dei advances a right-wing Christian agenda, and in the U.S., it promotes deeply reactionary policies through its ties to immensely powerful figures in politics and the judiciary.
One day in the archive, the archivist took me aside and said, “By the way, there’s a whole pile of papers over here that we haven’t yet been able to classify. We found them in this mansion up in the hills outside of Madrid, where the chairman used to live.” He told me that it was quite clear to him that someone had cleansed this secret cache of material of anything that was too incriminating.
The pope has fired a couple of warning shots, basically ordering the organization to get its house in order, but Opus Dei has completely ignored the warnings. We’re now in this kind of weird standoff. He knows that its ranks are riddled with abuse, and I believe he wants to do something about it, but he’s treading very carefully, because Opus Dei is very powerful and has very powerful and wealthy allies.
On My First Camping Trip, My Friend Put Me in Charge of Food. I Decided to Make … Linguine and Clams.I’ve noticed that often when someone criticizes the Catholic Church over the sex abuse crisis and other scandals, certain conservative Catholic groups tend to claim that the critics are bigots, that they’re prejudiced against faithful Catholics.
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