John Paul II went to kneel at St. Josemaria's dying bed
No pope in history has ever done that. St. Ignatius of Loyola sent one of the Jesuits to ask for the pope’s blessing before he died. But the pope never went to his dying bed. John Paul II accorded to St. Josemaria Escriva what no pope has ever done in the history of Catholicism. So now, the Opus Dei is growing in numbers as they carry out the WORLD DOMINATION PLAN of St. Josemaria Escriva, note, his plan, not Jesus Christ’s plan, not even the papal plan. And Benedict XVI is in a hurry to beatify and canonize John Paul II so that the Opus Dei can say to everyone: St. Josemaria and St. John Paul II.
Opus Dei want to portray a positive image to the world so they can keep recruiting naïve wealthy professional. Thanks to ODAN, they cannot go on deceiving the world as they would like to do. Here is a book to read to know the truth of Opus Dei: Inside the Hell of Opus Dei
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Book lifts cowl on 'misogynist' Opus Dei
By Susan Bell in Paris
04 Nov 2007
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1568302/Book-lifts-cowl-on-misogynist-Opus-Dei.html
Paul Bettany and Audrey Tautou, Book lifts cowl on 'misogynist' Opus Dei
Paul Bettany as Silas and Audrey Tautou as Sophie Neveu in the film 'The Da Vinci Code'
Véronique Duborgel
Insider: Véronique Duborgel was asked to inform on others
Defector tells of threats and humiliation she suffered during 13 years in secret sect
A mother of nine has lifted the lid on Opus Dei, the controversial Catholic organisation featured in Dan Brown's best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code, which portrayed it as a mysterious and cult-like -institution.
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87,000 members spreading the word
Véronique Duborgel re-counts in a new book, Inside the Hell of Opus Dei, the 13 years she spent as a member of the group, which she describes as rigid, insensitive, sectarian and misogynistic.
The 44-year-old kindergarten teacher describes techniques of psychological isolation similar to those sometimes used by sects, and claims that Opus Dei intrudes into the most intimate areas of members' private lives, encourages them to inform on each other and drains their financial resources.
Mrs Duborgel writes that she was instructed not to tell family or friends that she was a member of Opus Dei.
"I was told they might ask awkward questions and it would avoid family conflicts if they didn't know," she told The Sunday Telegraph.
She had also been told to drop friends who had no inclination to join the organisation. Each year she was required to give the names of three friends, known as St Joseph's List, whom she would have to try to persuade to join Opus Dei over the next 12 months.
Members were encouraged to look upon each other as "a family", but Mrs Duborgel said she was forbidden to share intimate confidences with her "sisters" – other female members of Opus Dei. Instead, she had to discuss personal matters with a spiritual director, "someone we had not chosen and whom we were obliged to report to."
Members were instructed to appear joyful, even when sad or depressed. "It was a form of psychological isolation," she said, adding that she had survived by concealing the existence of some friends she made through her children's school. "With them I could talk about the normal stuff, but I was obliged to live a double life, otherwise I would have got my knuckles rapped," she said.
Every 15 days, Mrs Duborgel's spiritual director questioned her about her faith, and occasionally about the most intimate details of her marriage. "Once she warned me not to buy sexy underwear because it led men into temptation," she added.
She added that her spiritual director also asked her to spy on other women to find out if they used contraception – labelled a sin by the Catholic Church. She refused, but was denounced by fellow members for crossing her legs at Mass ("disrespectful and immodest"), for wearing trousers ("too provocative") and for not wearing enough make-up.
On being upbraided because she had not re-dyed her hair, she objected that she had never done so, but was told the unfounded reprimand had been "good for her humility".
"I realised then that Opus Dei was more about humiliation than humility," she said.
When Mrs Duborgel confided to two Opus Dei priests that her then husband, a 48-year-old former university professor who now lives in a monastery, beat and insulted her, she was told: "It's your cross, you must bear it."
Opus Dei has opted to turn the other cheek over Mrs Duborgel's book. A spokeswoman, Beatrice de la Coste, said: "We sympathise with the suffering expressed in this work. It gives us great sadness. This woman was not sufficiently listened to."
The organisation would not pursue the author or the book legally, she said, adding: "We are not going to attack someone who is suffering."
"I am not suffering at all," retorted Mrs Duborgel. "The suffering was when I was in Opus Dei."
Mrs Duborgel was drawn into the organisation by her future husband, who kept his own membership secret until after she joined. She says the secrecy governing Opus Dei is illustrated by a Latin prayer, which members must recite daily on their knees. "I was told to learn it off by heart so if I was surprised by anyone there would be no written trace of the prayer," she said.
The couple gave €400 (£275) a month and a bigger contribution at Christmas to Opus Dei, whose worth is estimated to be £1.4?billion. "We were told to consider Opus Dei as an extra child we had to support. But it cost me more than all my children put together," said Mrs Duborgel, who lives in Strasbourg with six of her nine children.
The Da Vinci Code vividly portrays the practice of "corporal mortification" by Silas the Albino, the murderous, self-flagellating monk, but Mrs Duborgel said she was encouraged only to take cold showers and forego treats.
"Dan Brown's novel is not very accurate about the organisation of Opus Dei, but where he got it exactly right is in his portrayal of a group who are prepared to do anything to maintain their power."
The last straw came at an Opus Dei conference at which a senior member said women were the equals of dogs. "He was not joking," she said.
She finally summoned up the courage to leave in 1996 when her husband, who opposed her plan, was away. From her anger at her treatment, her book was born – a book she expects Opus Dei members will be forbidden to read.
87,000 members spreading the word
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1568303/87000-members-spreading-the-word.html
Published: 12:01AM GMT 04 Nov 2007
Ruth Kelly, 87,000 members spreading the Opus Dei word
Opus Dei member, Ruth Kelly
The movement
• Opus Dei, Latin for "Work of God", is an arm of the Catholic Church.
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Opus Dei cartoon and TV series to boost image
Opus Dei founder Escrivá to receive Hollywood treatment
• Its mission is "to spread the ideas of holiness in the middle of the world".
• Founded in Spain in 1928 by St Josemaria Escriva, it claims more than 87,000 members across 61 countries.
• There are about 50,000 members in Europe, 30,000 in the Americas, 5,000 in Asia and the Pacific and 2,000 in Africa.
• About 98 per cent of members are lay people. Most are married, about half are women and 30 per cent choose to be celibate.
• It has operated in Britain since 1946 and has 25 centres in London, Manchester, Oxford and Glasgow.
• Monsignor Nicholas Morrish has been regional vicar of Opus Dei for Great Britain since 1998.
• The head of Opus Dei is Bishop Javier Echevarria Rodriguez, a Spaniard.
Fact and fiction
• Opus Dei is often called a secret society. In fact, it publishes the names of its priests and international and regional directors, but not names of lay members.
• In the film of The Da Vinci Code, an Opus Dei member performs "corporal mortification" by wearing a metal chain adorned with spikes, known as a cilice, which cuts into his flesh. Some members do practise corporal mortification, including whipping themselves with a simple cord, but Opus Dei insists the film's depiction was "distorted and exaggerated".
Famous members
• Ruth Kelly, the Secretary of State for Transport.
• Joaquin Navarro Valls, spokesman for the late Pope John Paul II.
• Francisco Franco, the late Spanish dictator.
• Others rumoured to be members include Mel Gibson, Hollywood actor, Louis Freeh, former director of the FBI, and American Supreme Court judges Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.
Opus Dei want to portray a positive image to the world so they can keep recruiting naïve wealthy professional. Thanks to ODAN, they cannot go on deceiving the world as they would like to do. Here is a book to read to know the truth of Opus Dei: Inside the Hell of Opus Dei
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Book lifts cowl on 'misogynist' Opus Dei
By Susan Bell in Paris
04 Nov 2007
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1568302/Book-lifts-cowl-on-misogynist-Opus-Dei.html
Paul Bettany and Audrey Tautou, Book lifts cowl on 'misogynist' Opus Dei
Paul Bettany as Silas and Audrey Tautou as Sophie Neveu in the film 'The Da Vinci Code'
Véronique Duborgel
Insider: Véronique Duborgel was asked to inform on others
Defector tells of threats and humiliation she suffered during 13 years in secret sect
A mother of nine has lifted the lid on Opus Dei, the controversial Catholic organisation featured in Dan Brown's best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code, which portrayed it as a mysterious and cult-like -institution.
Related Articles
87,000 members spreading the word
Véronique Duborgel re-counts in a new book, Inside the Hell of Opus Dei, the 13 years she spent as a member of the group, which she describes as rigid, insensitive, sectarian and misogynistic.
The 44-year-old kindergarten teacher describes techniques of psychological isolation similar to those sometimes used by sects, and claims that Opus Dei intrudes into the most intimate areas of members' private lives, encourages them to inform on each other and drains their financial resources.
Mrs Duborgel writes that she was instructed not to tell family or friends that she was a member of Opus Dei.
"I was told they might ask awkward questions and it would avoid family conflicts if they didn't know," she told The Sunday Telegraph.
She had also been told to drop friends who had no inclination to join the organisation. Each year she was required to give the names of three friends, known as St Joseph's List, whom she would have to try to persuade to join Opus Dei over the next 12 months.
Members were encouraged to look upon each other as "a family", but Mrs Duborgel said she was forbidden to share intimate confidences with her "sisters" – other female members of Opus Dei. Instead, she had to discuss personal matters with a spiritual director, "someone we had not chosen and whom we were obliged to report to."
Members were instructed to appear joyful, even when sad or depressed. "It was a form of psychological isolation," she said, adding that she had survived by concealing the existence of some friends she made through her children's school. "With them I could talk about the normal stuff, but I was obliged to live a double life, otherwise I would have got my knuckles rapped," she said.
Every 15 days, Mrs Duborgel's spiritual director questioned her about her faith, and occasionally about the most intimate details of her marriage. "Once she warned me not to buy sexy underwear because it led men into temptation," she added.
She added that her spiritual director also asked her to spy on other women to find out if they used contraception – labelled a sin by the Catholic Church. She refused, but was denounced by fellow members for crossing her legs at Mass ("disrespectful and immodest"), for wearing trousers ("too provocative") and for not wearing enough make-up.
On being upbraided because she had not re-dyed her hair, she objected that she had never done so, but was told the unfounded reprimand had been "good for her humility".
"I realised then that Opus Dei was more about humiliation than humility," she said.
When Mrs Duborgel confided to two Opus Dei priests that her then husband, a 48-year-old former university professor who now lives in a monastery, beat and insulted her, she was told: "It's your cross, you must bear it."
Opus Dei has opted to turn the other cheek over Mrs Duborgel's book. A spokeswoman, Beatrice de la Coste, said: "We sympathise with the suffering expressed in this work. It gives us great sadness. This woman was not sufficiently listened to."
The organisation would not pursue the author or the book legally, she said, adding: "We are not going to attack someone who is suffering."
"I am not suffering at all," retorted Mrs Duborgel. "The suffering was when I was in Opus Dei."
Mrs Duborgel was drawn into the organisation by her future husband, who kept his own membership secret until after she joined. She says the secrecy governing Opus Dei is illustrated by a Latin prayer, which members must recite daily on their knees. "I was told to learn it off by heart so if I was surprised by anyone there would be no written trace of the prayer," she said.
The couple gave €400 (£275) a month and a bigger contribution at Christmas to Opus Dei, whose worth is estimated to be £1.4?billion. "We were told to consider Opus Dei as an extra child we had to support. But it cost me more than all my children put together," said Mrs Duborgel, who lives in Strasbourg with six of her nine children.
The Da Vinci Code vividly portrays the practice of "corporal mortification" by Silas the Albino, the murderous, self-flagellating monk, but Mrs Duborgel said she was encouraged only to take cold showers and forego treats.
"Dan Brown's novel is not very accurate about the organisation of Opus Dei, but where he got it exactly right is in his portrayal of a group who are prepared to do anything to maintain their power."
The last straw came at an Opus Dei conference at which a senior member said women were the equals of dogs. "He was not joking," she said.
She finally summoned up the courage to leave in 1996 when her husband, who opposed her plan, was away. From her anger at her treatment, her book was born – a book she expects Opus Dei members will be forbidden to read.
87,000 members spreading the word
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1568303/87000-members-spreading-the-word.html
Published: 12:01AM GMT 04 Nov 2007
Ruth Kelly, 87,000 members spreading the Opus Dei word
Opus Dei member, Ruth Kelly
The movement
• Opus Dei, Latin for "Work of God", is an arm of the Catholic Church.
Related Articles
Opus Dei cartoon and TV series to boost image
Opus Dei founder Escrivá to receive Hollywood treatment
• Its mission is "to spread the ideas of holiness in the middle of the world".
• Founded in Spain in 1928 by St Josemaria Escriva, it claims more than 87,000 members across 61 countries.
• There are about 50,000 members in Europe, 30,000 in the Americas, 5,000 in Asia and the Pacific and 2,000 in Africa.
• About 98 per cent of members are lay people. Most are married, about half are women and 30 per cent choose to be celibate.
• It has operated in Britain since 1946 and has 25 centres in London, Manchester, Oxford and Glasgow.
• Monsignor Nicholas Morrish has been regional vicar of Opus Dei for Great Britain since 1998.
• The head of Opus Dei is Bishop Javier Echevarria Rodriguez, a Spaniard.
Fact and fiction
• Opus Dei is often called a secret society. In fact, it publishes the names of its priests and international and regional directors, but not names of lay members.
• In the film of The Da Vinci Code, an Opus Dei member performs "corporal mortification" by wearing a metal chain adorned with spikes, known as a cilice, which cuts into his flesh. Some members do practise corporal mortification, including whipping themselves with a simple cord, but Opus Dei insists the film's depiction was "distorted and exaggerated".
Famous members
• Ruth Kelly, the Secretary of State for Transport.
• Joaquin Navarro Valls, spokesman for the late Pope John Paul II.
• Francisco Franco, the late Spanish dictator.
• Others rumoured to be members include Mel Gibson, Hollywood actor, Louis Freeh, former director of the FBI, and American Supreme Court judges Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.
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