Ok, I need a little help here. Opus Dei is a catholic cult based mainly in europe, but that is all i know. if i remember correctly they have an air of mystery about them, which the Vat is not too happy about

if anyone here knows about this group could they please post? i would be very grateful indeed!

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thanks very much. this will make for interesting reading!

Checked out the website. Doesn't seem to be anything sinister.

80,000 members world wide.

"In order to join Opus Dei a person must freely ask to do so, in the personal conviction, as stated previously, of having received this divine vocation; and the request needs to have been accepted by the authorities of the prelature."

seems to be mainly for mission work.
I do think trying to force your religious beliefs on someone is wrong but this doesnt make them an evil cult.

in 'Flicker' by Theodore Roszak they mention the 'oculus dei'....anyone have a clue if there is a similarity? please, if you have any insights, do share.

The Opus-Dei is a european extremist branch of catholic church.

They are against abortion, Homosexuality...
They even want to come back to the office in latin !

Isn't the mainstream catholic church also against both?
I don't see any homosexuals being ordained as priests
and the present pope does condemn abortion.
In this respect Opus Dei is no different or more extreme.

Originally posted by yogibear
I don't see any homosexuals being ordained as priests

Excuse me!?! Where have you been for the past year?

Greetings.

Let me tell you that I am Spanish, like the founder of the Opus Dei, José María Escrivá de Balaguer, and I know something about this order, which belongs to the Roman Catholic Church.

The structure of the "Work of God" (Opus Dei) is quite open but the importance of it is not only the strong indoctrination in a very traditionalist way of Catholicism but also the "group feeling" of this order. Told another way: there is a strong traffic of influence among those who belong to the "Work".

The summit, to the date, of the influence of this order was in Spain from the late 1960´s to middle 1970´s, when the members of it were a large part of the bureaucratic apparattus of the dictatorial regime of General Franco (in fact they displaced the older movement of Falange, a Fascist party-labor union that appeared from melting several right-wing and fascist movements during the Spanish Civil War).

Nowadays several "aparatchiks" of the Spanish government are members of the Opus Dei, as they are descendants and kin to former aparatchiks of the dictatorship too (this comes when you have a peaceful transition from tiranny to so-called-democracy). Their role in regressive politics in Spain is very serious and even dangerous.

Some say they're the Vatican Mafia.