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  • The website akaCatholic has been publishing the research of Randy Engel on Opus Dei.  Both have done a great service to English language readers as it is difficult to find honest reporting in English onOpus Dei as the personal prelature keeps a tight lid on what is written about them through their full spectrum dominance of the religious medias.  While we at Call Me Jorge... don’t agree with everything Randy Engel writes, she should be given kudos for shining the light onOpus Dei.




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     Opus Dei WATCH "Opus Dei -  Elise hαɾɾιs - John Allen Jr.  What's the connection?" - 28/10/2019
     
    “The things of Opus Dei - Where is the power of Opus today, how does it exercise it, who is channeling it, in what media does it influence or where does its pressure flow, how does it regulate the credits and to whom does it grant, if it does or can it do so?” Quote from Jordi Garcia             OpusLibros
     
     
     
    Hi Everyone – For years I couldn’t phantom (sic) how Opus Dei got its hooks into the former leftist National Catholic Reporter John L. Allen, Jr. [now Editor of CRUX which was  bailed out and funded by the Knights of Columbus.] George’s tweet helped me to understand a few things. Thanks George! Randy Engel, Opus Dei WATCH
     
    1.        From George Neumayr Twitter Account: George Neumayr‏ @george_neumayr Oct 23 2019
    More Francis-friendly blather from John Allen. Many have been fooled into thinking he is an "objective" Vatican reporter. In truth, he is mainly a stenographer for the bad guys. He is also openly heterodox-a divorcee who is shacked up with Crux 's Elise hαɾɾιs.
     
    The Importance and Significance of George’s Tweet
     
    Elise hαɾɾιs  is Senior correspondent for CRUX. She also worked for Opus Dei’s Catholic News Agency. How did she get to Rome?  Did OD or Allen bring her there?
     
    More importantly, is she [hαɾɾιs] a member or former member of Opus Dei? The two pro-OD articles reprinted below suggests she is. Note that CRUX and CNA both have strong OD ties. 
     
    So let’s begin to tally up the Opus Dei scorecard ….
     
    First we have Opus Dei Carl Anderson, head of the Knights of Columbus, who bailed out CRUX and let Allen stay on as Editor of CRUX. 
     
    Next, we have Opus Dei former numerary Archbishop Gomez of the Los Angeles Archdiocese promoting Allen in the Angelus!
     
    And we have the Opus Dei Prelature proudly promoting Allen for years after he wrote his book “Opus Dei” (2005) which comes out pretty much in favor of the Prelature.
     
    I’d say there is a story here. 
     
    QUESTION? WHAT DOES THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS AND ARCHBISHOP GOMEZ AND OPUS DEI KNOW ABOUT THE hαɾɾιs/ALLEN AFFAIR IN ROME AND WHEN DID THEY KNOW IT? AND WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?
     
    AND THE ANSWER IS ?????
     
    Additional Information on hαɾɾιs and the Angelus found below:
     
     
    > Elise hαɾɾιs
    Crux Biographical DATA
    Elise hαɾɾιs is a Denver native who currently works as a Senior Correspondent for Crux in Rome, covering the Vatican and the global Church. Before joining Crux, Elise worked with Catholic News Agency, first as a multi-media and content management assistant in Denver, and then as Senior Rome Correspondent covering the Vatican. She graduated from the University of Northern Colorado in 2010 and holds degrees in philosophy and communications.
    Source: https://angelusnews.com/faith/rome-conference-ponders-the-rise-of-everyday-lay-saints/

    Note left hand “Voices” This is a page from the Angelus. Angelus News is Gomez’s OD media outlet.
    * Voices
        * Archbishop José H. Gomez
        * Father Ronald Rolheiser, OMI
        * Bishop Robert Barron
        * Ruben Navarrette
        * Heather King
        * Grazie Pozo Christie
        * John L. Allen, Jr. !!!!!
        * Greg Erlandson
        * Robert Brennan
        * Russell Shaw
     
    Rome conference ponders the rise of ‘everyday’ lay saints
    Elise hαɾɾιs | Crux Now ******************
    May 01, 2019 • 4 Min Read

    The Diocese of Rome formally opened the sainthood process for Chiara Corbella Petrillo

    Since the beginning of his pontificate, one of the things Pope Francis has advocated most vocally is a less clerical church with a greater involvement of laypeople at every level, including the Roman Curia.

    At a time when the push for lay leadership is growing in the wake of further scandals related to Catholicism’s global sɛҳuąƖ abuse crisis, with many arguing lay intervention would help break a systemic cycle of cover-up among bishops and priests, a Rome conference has highlighted the lives of seven lay individuals whose causes for sainthood are underway and who’ve been recognized as sterling examples of how to transform one’s daily life and activities into the service of God.

    The conference, dedicated to lay holiness, took place ‪April 30‬ at Rome’s Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, and focused on the lives of six laypeople, mostly young Italians, who died in their 20s after battling illnesses or rejecting unwanted sɛҳuąƖ advances.
    Speaking to a packed auditorium, Monsignor Fernando Ocáriz, leader for the personal prelature of Opus Dei, said that “every new saint and blessed is a source of hope and a living witness of the Gospel,” but the lives of laypeople offer a concrete example of people who “have sought to radically live Christianity in the world.”
    Calling the individuals a “bright example of Christian holiness,” Ocáriz said their lives are “an occasion of grace not only for those who remember them in intercession, but for all faithful” who work toward “the sanctification of man and the glorification of Christ in men.”

    The conference took place just weeks before the beatification of Guadalupe Ortiz de Landazuri, one of the first women to join Opus Dei and the first layperson from the group to be so honored, is set to take place in Spain ‪May 18‬, the day commemorating her First Communion.

    Ortiz de Landazuri was a standout chemist at a time when the scientific field was dominated by men, but deeply devout and widely recognized as someone whose faith shone as bright as her intellect.

    Born in Madrid in 1916, Ortiz de Landazuri was raised in a pious household and was the only daughter among the family’s four children. After a brief time living in South Africa due to her father’s military career, the family returned to Madrid, where Ortiz de Landazuri graduated high school and enrolled in a chemistry class at Spain’s Universidad Central in 1933, becoming one of just five women in a class of 70 students.

    She became one of the first women to join Opus Dei in 1944 after meeting its founder, Spanish Father Josemaria Escriva, who emphasized the pursuit of personal holiness in one’s concrete daily circuмstances.

    After their first meeting, Ortiz de Landazuri decided to dedicate her life to pursuing God in her professional life as a teacher at Madrid’s school of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In 1950 she moved to Mexico at Escriva’s invitation and helped establish Opus Dei in the country.
    She set up a student residence for university women while continuing to pursue her own doctorate in chemistry. After obtaining the degree and winning a prize for her scientific research, she took on leadership roles at the Ramiro de Maeztu Institute and the Women’s School for Industrial Sciences, and later helped establish the Center of Studies and Research of Domestic Sciences.

    Though her own life was not reflected on during the conference, the event was held in honor of her beatification to highlight the growing number of laypeople getting halos.

    Those who were commemorated included 
    Blessed Chiara Luce Badano, a member of the Italian Focolare Movement who died at 18 after battling cancer; 
    Venerable Carlo Acutis, a young computer-lover who passed away at 15 after losing his fight with fulminant leukemia; 
    Servant of God Enrique Shaw, who died from cancer at 41 and was known for promoting the social doctrine of the Church in business growth by founding the Christian Association of Business Executives; and 
    Servant of God Chiara Corbella Petrillo, who was diagnosed with cancer while pregnant and died in 2012 after refusing treatment in order to save her baby.

    Also highlighted were Servant of God Marta Obregon Rodriguez, a young journalist who was involved with both Opus Dei and the Neocatechumenal Way, and who was murdered in 1992 after being abducted from her home by a man who attempted to rape her; and Angelica Tiraboschi, who also died at 19 after battling cancer, and who was known for her joy and deep faith.

    Professor Maria Pilar del Rio, who teaches liturgical ecclesiology at Santa Croce, spoke at the conference on the “theology of the laity” that came out of the 1962-65 Second Vatican Council.

    This new emphasis on holiness as something attainable and which should be pursued by all members of the Church, not just priests and consecrated people, wasn’t developed “at the table,” she said, but was drawn from the “lives, work and numerous apostolic activities that the laity have brought forward.”

    Because of this, the topic of laity has been “welcomed and developed” since Vatican II in post-conciliar theological reflection, del Rio said, noting that the defining characteristics of lay saints are that they come from all backgrounds: Men and women, young and old, married and single, students and professionals, from all countries and backgrounds.

    Each of the people highlighted, del Rio said, had encountered Jesus at some pivotal point, “and this encounter changed their lives. Then they immediately fell in love…with him who loved them first,” and then spent the rest of their lives in service to God and others.

    She emphasized that holiness is “a task for all baptized without question,” and that all Catholic faithful, “of whatever state and status, are called to Christian life and perfection in charity.”
    Laity, she said, are called to carry our mission in a secular world, and as such, they are invited “to continue the sanctifying work of God…not only for the salvation of men, but also of the reconciliation of the world with God.”

    “Laity are called by God into the world from the world,” in a family and in society, and as a consequence, “the world for the laity is a place of call and mission.”


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    There's a new leader of Opus Dei. Here's what he wants to do.
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    Mons. Fernando Ocariz. Credit: Opus Dei Communications Office via Flickr (CC BY NC SA 2.0).

    By Elise hαɾɾιs and Kevin J. Jones
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    Vatican City, Jan 24, 2017 / ‪04:13 pm‬ ().- The new head of Opus Dei has been confirmed by Pope Francis, and his plan for the prelature is simple.
 
“I have the desire that the prelature of Opus Dei continues to do the good it has done and is increasingly doing in service of the world, which is really the only thing that interests us: the good of the person. The good of the person which, in the final moment, is the encounter with Jesus Christ,” Monsignor Fernando Ocariz Braña told reporters Tuesday.

    Msgr. Ocariz voiced gratitude to Pope Francis, who formally accepted the nomination ‪Jan. 23.‬
    The Pope acted “with great affection…the affection he has for us, the hope for the work the prelature does in the world,” the monsignor told journalists ‪Jan. 24.‬
    Msgr. Ocariz said the Pope also sent a gift: “a beautiful medal of the Madonna.”

    The monsignor served as vicar general of Opus Dei from 1994 to 2014, when he became auxiliary vicar. The prelature’s elective congress began ‪on Jan. 23‬ and quickly chose him as their nominee.

    The new prelate did not visit Pope Francis for the nomination. Rather, Msgr. Mario Fazio, the prelature’s vicar general, was received by the pontiff, who approved the nomination right away.
    Msgr. Fazio recounted: “He told me many beautiful things, but in particular that Opus Dei today finds itself in a very important, very historic moment, because we have the first prelate who didn’t work directly with the founder, so we have to be very faithful to the spirit of the founder and at the same time have a great apostolic rush toward the future, and give thanks for the work the prelature is doing throughout the world.”

    The fact that the date of Msgr. Ocariz’s nomination fell during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity prompted the new prelate to reflect on Pope Francis’ comments about “the need to build bridges” and “to never be people of conflict.”

    “Conflicts usually are occasions to lack charity,” he said. “To build bridges doesn’t mean being on good terms is the supreme good, each one can have different ideas but can be friends treat each other well even with different ideas.”

    He told reporters he felt inadequate to succeed his predecessors as Prelate of Opus Dei, St. Josemaria Escriva and Blessed Alvaro del Portillo. He also felt inadequate to succeed his immediate predecessor Bishop Javier Echevarria, who passed away ‪Dec. 12‬ at the age of 84.

    He questioned how he could be the successor of St. Josemaria and Bl. Don Alvaro, who were “two great personalities with a very high spiritual and human stature.” He asked how he could succeed Bishop Echevarria, who also had a notable humanity and spirituality.

    “But at the same time, before God’s providence, I am calm, because if God wanted this he will give me the help needed,” he said. He said he felt “everything together, gratitude and inadequacy, and inside of this, a serenity. Thank God I am so serene, even if I shouldn’t be!”

    He credited the many prayers of people who prayed for the prelature.
    Msgr. Ocariz briefly outlined his goals for the programs of Opus Dei. He said there needed to be many programs directed to the great challenges facing Christians and civil society. In many places young people feel “crushed, without ideals” and many times lack hope. Families too need pastoral care, as so many recent Popes have said.

    “Thanks to God the prelature is working a lot to help families in different ways,” he commented.

    He recognized the feeling that sometimes it seems like one’s work isn’t accomplishing anything:  
    “When things are done out of love for God, to serve others, which are inseparable, nothing is lost, even if at times it seems like something is lost. Nothing is lost. We have faith that the love of God is behind every moment, every event in our lives.”
    He also recounted the challenges facing those in poverty or sickness.

    He recounted the first time he met Pope Francis, when he was Auxiliary Bishop Jorge Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, and four years later after he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires.

    “On both of these occasions he seemed like a very serious person, not like now, always smiling. He seemed serious, very caring, simple, educated, you could clearly see a positive interest for the people, a pastoral interest,” he recounted. The Pope seemed like “a serious person who at the same time showed a big heart for the people. You could see this in just 10 minutes of being with him.”
    The Prelature of Opus Dei was founded in ‪1928 by St.‬ Josemaria Escriva. Its spirituality emphasizes that holiness can be achieved by anyone.

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  • An occult created by so call intellectual priest for selected chosen “intellectuals” and slaves.  That is just like Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ. 
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  • An occult created by so call intellectual priest for selected chosen “intellectuals” and slaves.  That is just like Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ.
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    An Interview with Miguel Fisac
    Seventeen years ago, Opus Dei Awareness Network (ODAN) produced a remarkable interview with the award-winning Spanish architect Miguel Fisac, one of the early members of Opus Dei and an intimate of its founder, Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer for almost two decades (1936-1955).
    Logically speaking, Mr. Fisac would have been a natural and key witness to testify at the Cause of beatification of Msgr. Escrivá, but his request was rejected by the tribunal in charge of the case on the basis that he (Fisac) was “psychologically unbalanced” and demonstrated “pathological scruples with obsessive manifestations, permanent anxiety and (a) persecution complex.” In other words, Mr. Eisac’s truthful testimony along with that of other rejected testimonies by Maria del Carmen Tapia, Dr. John Roche and other critics of Opus Dei would probably have sunk the Cause.
    The Early Years with Escrivá
    Miguel Fisac is the only living person who belonged to Opus Dei before the Spanish cινιℓ ωαr. He met Father José María Escrivá through a mutual friend at a student residency in Madrid and joined Opus Dei on February 27, 1936, shortly before the cινιℓ ωαr broke out.
    Although he knew he did not have a religious vocation, the young Fisac was attracted and held bound by the fellowship he shared with other members. As a young architect dedicated to his profession, he managed to retain a measure of independence. He did not actively proselytize, and he remained aloof from the internal affairs of the organization. He did, however, turn over his hefty salary to Opus Dei. And, by choice, he lived apart from his own natural family.
    The Decision to Leave Opus Dei
    In 1955, nineteen years and eight months after he said yes to Escrivá, Fisac informed the General Secretary, Antonio Pérez that he wanted to leave Opus Dei, but was persuaded to first consult Escrivá, and later Alvaro Portillo, who became the founder’s successor. Naturally, both tried to convince him to remain a member, but the 42-year old Fisac remained adamant. When he was approached to become a supernumerary or cooperator he refused.
    Why did Miguel Fisac leave Opus Dei? For many reasons.
    Over the years, it appears that Fisac’s initial attraction to the charismatic Escrivá lost its luster upon a longer and closer acquaintance. Differences regarding artistic and cultural concepts later extended to Escrivá’s theological and supernatural ideas.
    Regarding Escrivá’s personality, Fisac stated that the more the founder grew in importance the greater became his conceit. Except for Portillo, he (Escrivá) never spoke well of any one especially ecclesiastics, friars and monks.
    Fisac was also critical of how Escrivá “capriciously” selected priests for Opus Dei from its pool of numeraries “as if it were a game…” Members who desired to answer the call to the priesthood were systematically refused, while others, without any such desire or call, were ordained, Fisac said.
    Fisac also observed that the precept of love of one’s neighbor was non-existent “in the spirit and conduct of its members.”
    In his ODAN interview, Fisac said “During the time I knew him, I never saw him with any poor people.” However, Fisac does note Escrivá’s “great affection for the members of the aristocracy,” and his affinity for material luxuries:
    For many years, the construction of the central house in Rome was a matter of maximum importance for Monsignor Escrivá. He demanded the general mobilization of all members to secure the money needed. Millions and millions of pesetas were invested in luxuries of low artistic quality, but in the Renaissance manner, because all of these frivolous details were of the greatest importance to him.
    In the end, Opus Dei became “a machine for generating power,” Fisac said. “The numerary members of Opus Dei were living with many secrets and lies, with an indigestion of rules and prayers that were cramping their lives.”
    The Persecution Begins and Never Ends
    Three months after he left Opus Dei, Fisac met his future wife Ana Maria Badell. They were happily married in 1957, and remained so, despite Escrivá’s prediction that Fisac would be “wretched.”
    Although Fisac had secured a promise from Portillo that there would be no reprisals against him when he left Opus Dei, there were reprisals never-the-less.
    One of the cruelest occurred when Miguel and Ana’s six-year-old daughter died of an adverse reaction to a polio vaccination. No word of sympathy came from either Escrivá or Portillo. On the day of the funeral, two Opus Dei members, Paco Botella, Fisac’s former confessor, and Antonio Pérez, came to their home, like two Mafia hit men, to deliver the not-so-subtle message that their daughter’s death was a punishment for having left Opus Dei.
    From a professional perspective, Fisac discovered he was losing clients and work due to Opus Dei pressure. Opus Dei replied that people no longer liked his work. Opus Dei never relented.
    At the end of his interview, Miguel Fisac concludes:
    It saddens me to see, today, from afar, such a powerful and fearsome organization, which has absorbed so many generous young people who came to it with the intention of serving God.
    And I pray to God, every day, for Monsignor Escrivá, for the salvation of his soul.
    [The complete text of An Interview with Miguel Fisac – An Insight into the Early Years of Opus Dei is available for $7.00 from ODAN (linked above) or Box 4333, Pittsfield, MA, USA, 01202-4333.]
     
    Opus Dei Guidebook – This comprehensive website has the best translations of heretofore secret Opus Dei internal and external docuмents and Vatican docuмents related to the Prelature.
    • The 200-page section titled Code of Opus Dei includes “Code of Canon Law” which briefly defines the Prelature and its relationship with the laity and bishops; UT SIT which is the 1982 Apostolic Constitution that created the Prelature of Opus Dei; the 1950 Constitutions which is the main governing docuмent with important details not found in the 1982 Statutes; and the 1982 Statues which were revised but did not replace parts of the 1950
    • The Opus Dei Codes of Secrecy is one of the most informative and important sections of the Guidebook as it answers questions related to many of the objectionable practices of Opus Dei as “a secret society by statute,” and the secrecy concerning membership.
    • Centers is the section dealing with Opus Dei’s canonically erected centers versus its  autonomous/dependent centers. The slide-show is a valuable asset.
    • Opus Dei’s Purpose is a short section dealing with Opus Dei’s reason for existence.
    • How Opus Dei Works is a technical section dealing with the structure of the prelature from top to bottom. It makes clear that while the members of Opus Dei can act individually or through associations which may be cultural, artistic or economic etc., and which are called Auxiliary Societies, never-the-less all these apostolates “are subject in their activities to the authority of the hierarchy of the Prelature. This means that no Opus Dei apostolate acts independently of the Prelature even though the Opus Dei numerary or supernumerary or cooperator foots the bill, in whole or in part, for the apostolate.
    • Member Vows and Life explains the difference between traditional religious public vows and those required by the Prelature for its members. One of the most important points the Guidebook makes is that while religious orders are required by Canon Law to care for their members for life, the Prelature has no such canonical or legal obligation to its members. This section should be required reading for anyone contemplating membership in Opus Dei.
    • The section titled Membership provides a visual view of the structure of Opus Dei. It also contains insights into how Opus Dei uses information about its members as an instrument of power over those same members. We are reminded that: 39 Before admitting someone, the Counselor should not fail to seek, through the local Director, reports, including confidential ones, regarding the aspirant’s talents, his culture, his piety, his aptitude for the activities of the Institute, his family, his studies and other things which can provide a more intimate knowledge of his personality.  The most profound silence and secrecy should be kept about this (emphasis added).
    • Opus Dei News, the last section of the Guidebook is somewhat dated and needs refreshing.
    Leopards in the Temple
    By John Martin
    Leopards break into the temple and drink the sacrificial chalices dry. This happens again and again, repeatedly. Finally, it can be counted on beforehand and becomes part of the ceremony
    -Franz Kafka, Parables
    One of the most lasting and profound critiques about the inordinate ordination of Escrivá in particular, and Opus Dei in general, is John Martin’s “Leopards in the Temple: Opus Dei, Escriva, and John Paul II’s Rome” which appeared in The Remnant newspaper on June 30, 2002, and is an attachment to this mailing. Here are some excerpts from this literary masterpiece:
    It’s not simply that Escriva and Opus Dei have a legion of critics and a history of dubious practices, it’s the startling pace John Paul II has followed in exalting this mysterious shepherd and his multinational flock through a series of breathtakingly honorific 10-year milestones — granting Opus Dei personal prelature status (1982), beatifying Escriva (1992), and now (2002) declaring this dynamic but disturbing son of Spain worthy to rub elbows with such giants as John the Baptist, Peter and Paul, Joan of Arc, Thomas More, Therese of Lisieux, and Christina the Astonishing. …
    To be sure, Escriva and Opus Dei represent a leopard with a very different pattern of spots and manner of operating. Whereas the others have generally been diluters of the sacrificial chalices — adding the pale water of liberalism to the good wine of orthodoxy — Escriva and Opus Dei have brought an additive of unmistakable potency: Serviam, the spirit of true believers. Here are people who look, act, and sound like the solid old Catholics of yesteryear — in fact, more so. And that’s just the problem: in their scrupulous adherence to the fierce and narrow demands of their humorless and superorthodox prelature, Opus Dei members inevitably become more “Catholic” than Catholicism — especially in the respective matters of self-discipline, spiritual direction, and reverence for authority. And nowhere is that reverence more evident than in the unthinking, uncritical, and virtually Maoist way they praise and quote the man variously called “the Father,” “Our Father,” and “the Founder. …”
    Yet papally blessed or not, both Escriva and Opus Dei continue to attract bristling criticism from journalists, disenchanted former members, and the often embittered parents of children “lost” to an organization they see as a Catholic version of a mind control sect as cultic in its way as Scientology, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church, or the Falun Gong. …
    Whatever their different experiences, a common thread runs through every tale told of life in Opus Dei — an emphasis on recruiting so intense as to be compared only to the round-the-clock efforts of the coaches at America’s big-time football factories. According to author Jean-Jacques Thierry, all Opus Dei schools, clubs, cultural centers, residences, universities, publishing houses, and special events have as their principal goal just one thing — more members. …
    Still, it’s Opus Dei’s financial situation that gets most of the journalistic ink and paper. In the absence of an annual report, of course, one can only speculate about what reserves of treasure are to be found in the organization’s well-hidden coffers. …
    But while Opus money, with its labyrinthine travels, its eager suitors, and its inevitable influence, may open doors for the organization and positively cries out for an investigation by any financially competent and personally uncompromised clerics who may still exist in today’s Rome, it’s the closing of doors that needs to be looked at even more earnestly. For it’s behind those elegant doors in those glistening numerary residences, and in some family ones as well, that the deeper mischief is going on — the control, the conditioning, the cultifying. …
    Secretive, elusive, shrewd — whether outside the temple hunting, or inside it eyeing the chalices, the leopard called Opus Dei has made its presence known and feared.
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  • Thank you, Randy Engle for exposing the evil people who have corrupted the Church.   

    Opus Dei isn’t Catholic.  So many creepy groups that aren’t Catholic has infiltrated the Church. 














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  • How Opus Seeds Its Writers into Catholic Press

    Randy Engel

    Opus Dei writers



    Here is an example of how Opus Dei Seeds its writers from Holy Cross University in Rome to other Catholic outlets with Opus connections like the NCRegister. Randy

    Ann Schneible
    Ann Schneible Ann Schneible is a freelance journalist who currently resides in Virginia with her cat, Cordelia. From 2017-2021, she served as the communications director for Courage International. Prior to this, she worked as a Rome correspondent for ZENIT and Catholic News Agency/EWTN, a collaborator with Vatican Radio, and a translator for L’Osservatore Romano. She has an S.T.L. in Institutional Church Communications from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome  [***Opus Dei University], and a B.A. in English literature from Christendom College.


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    Re: Opus Dei Watch
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  • Fr Josemaria Escriva reacted very badly to the New Order, so badly that although he swore never to ask for a CDW indult (for a private Mass using Roman Missal of 1962 with the transitional revisions up to 1967) Mgsr Bugnini provided one to him. Yet seems also that he considered seriously defecting to Eastern Orthodoxy. There are presently quite a few who crumble and do as much in the age of Francis and Traditionis custodis, but it seems a bit unusual for a canonised saint, it might just be said.

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  • Indeed strange inclinations in a saint. Just as well he resisted his temptations, or canonisation might have been delayed. :facepalm:

    I would like to have a handy reference to the Catholic publications under the control of The Work.
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    Re: Opus Dei Watch
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  • Dear Friends of Opus Dei WATCH –
    It is good to be in contact with all of you again. I’m working on a major expose of Opus, but in the meantime I’m sending you some current articles that are appearing on Opuslibros: Opus Dei: The Trap of Vocation (opuslibros.org). This one is one of the best. It’s a classic.
    Randy Engel
    for OPUS DEI WATCH.


    The link above is Spanish. Here is the English translation.


    THE TRAP OF VOCATION
    "The Opus," says Pániker (Raimundo Pánikerentered the Obra in 1939 and left in 1966. He was ordained a priest in the second class)," he wants to save the world from himself in the name of God, but on his own terms. The conditions of Opus, of course, are identical to those of its founder. All grace that leads to salvation comes to the members of Opus Dei through its founder. Through the grace of the founder you are what you are. Hence the traumas suffered by those who leave. Too often they believe, and the members of Opus think so, that by separating themselves from this source of grace they put themselves out of this divinely and unalterably perfect institution of inspiration, and are destined to be eternally damned. "The devil acts quickly," Janet Gould told her mother when she explained why she could not leave the Opus residence for a short period to go home to visit, "and he will do so if I leave here. (Quoted in the "Catholic Pictorial," September 13, 1981. Miss Gould has already left Opus.) The impact on Opus members is predictable. They are early separated from their natural family. They are taught to believe that salvation is impossible, now that they are members of Opus Dei, but only through the organization into which they have entered. It supplies their family life, their environment, at least in everything that is not professional activity and, in many cases, especially for women, also this one. When they are disillusioned, therefore, the emotional impact is overwhelming. Those who want to leave have no one to turn to, no one, outside of Opus, with whom to establish a relationship close enough that they can trust them. And they have also been brought up in the belief that by breaking their ties they are committing the most infamous sin. Salvation is transmitted through Opus. Without the Opus, the former numerary is doomed." (Collected by Michael Walsh, The Secret World of Opus Dei)..
    Life, outside the Work, has its troubles and its joys, it is life itself, that of any person in the middle of this world, without privileges, without glass screens, but without any other submission than what you want to do, be, think, and above all live and breathe! In the Work they dwarf God and make him an accomplice of an incredible spider's web to keep us well clinging with phrases as deceptive as "infidelity [to Opus Dei], breaking the union with God, that is the serious thing" (Escrivá). There's the catch! Look at it as follows:
    For Escrivá, leaving his work is the same as... break the union with God! (How much pride does it take to make such a claim?) To leave the Work is not to abandon the Church or turn our backs on God, because the Work is not the Church and the true Work of God is Jesus Christ.

    In the first place, your vocation was invented, "they saw it", but you were captured by a process of "falling in love" or attraction or coercion (remember how you entered the Work). Even so, if you had had a vocation - could you choose to have a vocation of "supernumerary at 14, 15, 16, 17 or 18 years old?, Right!- you had a vocation as a numerary because he / she - together with the priest of the work with whom you confessed - "had seen him in prayer" or as an aggregate if your social level or your education, your peculiarities and even your physique was not the desired one, or of auxiliary numerary, if you were taken out of a town, without studies, of humble class, from where "some young ladies" took you to the capital to "study", to "form" (with the tranquility that was left to your parents because you were going to carve out a better future).They invented your vocation and involved God.

    making you believe that He was the one asking you for "that." And you ended up accepting it "Domine, ut videam!", "You will not want to be like the rich young man of the Gospel to whom Jesus said'follow me' and by not doing so he was sad"... and so many similar phrases.

    In any case, not continuing in an organization is not being unfaithful, it is a choice and life is full of them. Imagine that you have signed a contract to work in a company and when you have been there for a while, you see that it has nothing to do with what you were told it was. You do not like their working methods, nor are you convinced by their goals, nor do you feel at ease. If you decide to terminate the contract and look for a better place where the air runs, no statute or any branch of any law, nor common sense would typify your case as "that of the unfaithful employee who wants to break his relationship with God". Imagine that you are married to a person who mistreats you and you have been enduring the situation for years.

    . If you dared to stand up to him, to denounce him and to leave his side, could anyone accuse you that if you abandon him, you are being unfaithful? And if, therefore, someone told you that in addition to being unfaithful, the serious thing is that you have broken your relationship with God, would it be in their right mind who tried to convince you to continue to endure? Do you think God would want you to continue to endure abuse and not defend yourself?

    Think for a moment about people who associate with or enter some religious institution. If at one point in their lives they believe and have the certainty that what they chose is no longer what they want, or it is no longer worth it, or they believe that their spiritual evolution has led them in other directions, with the same freedom they entered (freedom that you did not have), they leave. The Church, in her Code of Canon Law, protects them. And nothing happens, they are not unfaithful to God because God can be served in many ways (more than serving, God prefers that you love him) and God is still God and you are still you and nothing is broken, there is no infidelity. Remember the Father's phrase so that we do not forget how incongruous and wheezy it is: "infidelity [to Opus Dei], breaking the union with God, that is the serious thing."

    For the founder, "infidelity" is leaving the Work; it does not matter under what conditions or for what reasons. It does not respect your freedom, it does not admit that you think for free, it does not accept that you are a person or that you are yourself. And he dares, moreover, to use God for his own convenience. That is why he equates "infidelity" to "breaking the union with God" and makes you believe that if you leave the Work "you betray him like another Judas." How can anyone think in his right mind that not admitting, not understanding, not being able to combine theory with the practice of the spirit of Opus Dei, after having tried many times, is "breaking the union with God"? If it's just a matter of mental health! The idea of God has so little to do with desolation, with bitterness, with sadness, with unreason, with lack of charity, that if God could speak by his own mouth he would tell you that He has nothing to do with Opus Dei, that they are not his methods, that he loves you the same inside as outside and, above all, that it is not sectarian and that organizations are not invented in which the one inside ends up looking for reasons to die and not reasons to live.

    Leaving the Work is not "breaking the union with God" What will one thing have to do with another? What a crude manipulation and how easy to disassemble! But, it is true and we give you all the reason, you only realize that they have manipulated you or that they are doing it, when you are out or you are almost about to leave because your psychic and physical health can no longer.

    Curling the curl, if you are served by a situation that is not yours but that could have influenced you so much that you felt like a bad person for having left or wanting to leave Opus Dei, remember this passage from the Gospel: "Woman, has anyone condemned you? Me neither. Go in peace!" tags.
    And from the juridical point of view, the departure of the Work is perfectly legitimized in the Statutes of the Prelature, approved by the Church. Leaving is legitimate, you don't break any laws.
    We advise you to read chapter III of Maria del Carmen Tapia's book: "Vocational Crisis". It will give you "lights" to remind you or to let you know how the theme of vocation is used in Opus Dei. With a theological and philosophical explanation, Antonio RuízRetegui, theologian and numerary priest of Opus Dei, will also clarify it in his chapter The sense of perseverance of his intimate reflections "The theological and the institutional". A former numerary priest will also help you with his testimony Difficult decision, as can the writing The vocation to Opus Dei does not exist and on baptism. Read also the reflections, in the light of the Gospel, of the story of the rich young man, Letter to a recent 'whistle' with doubts, The sectarian technique of proselytism of Opus Dei.
    And to see the coercion in the arguments used to assign you a vocation, read – and make it read to your parents – the talk about the vocation of the circle. If you are going in circles, sooner or later they will tell you that, so that you "whistle". And to verify the falsity of their actions and the coldness of their sectarian methods, read the 27 steps to "pite" a numerary per month, an internal docuмent of Opus Dei where the guidelines of the process of recruitment and "infatuation" to which you will be subjected if you are under their influence are marked. Don't fall into the trap.
    As Antonio Pérez Tenessa* declared: "Once freed from the trauma left by the Work, I repeat literally with you: I, for my part, can continue to assure you that I have not come to miss any of your care, your talks, your advice, your dialogues, your apostolates, nothing. Because that was precisely what cost and repelled me as contradictory." (Collected by María Angustias Moreno in her book, El Opus Dei, annex to a story). *Antonio Pérez Tenessa asked for admission to Opus Dei in 1939, was ordained a priest in 1948. From 1950 he held the position of Secretary General of Opus Dei and in 1956 he was appointed Regional Councillor of Spain (a position equivalent to the current Regional Vicar). In 1965 he left the institution. In 1992 he published an article in the Spanish newspaper "El País" entitled: "I will not speak badly of the Work".
    Another testimony that will make you think and make you think and reconsider the reclautadores of vocations: "The "pitajes" in bulk and the vocation to Opus Dei". And another: "The seduction of affection: origins of a vocation". And another: "How we made numeraries in Mexico."


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  • More on Opus JuDei, much of it standing on Randy's shoulders: http://judaism.is/opus-dei.html

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  • It's so much like Scientology- it's scary

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  • It's so much like Scientology- it's scary
    It's so much like… Kabbalah…


    Opus Judei Founder, Escriba Preached Kabbalistic Doctrine, Tikkun Olam
     
    тαℓмυd in the Tabernacle
    “A cross without a corpus, a fabulously wealthy charity that apparently donates not one thin dime to anyone, shattered adherents tossed into the street, and Our Father doesn’t mean the first person of the Blessed Trinity. Welcome to the wacky and corrupt bizarro Catholicism of the Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei.…
     
    “Opus Dei subtly betrays the silhouette of a secret society. Governing by-laws, constitutions, publications, even the details of the Founder’s canonization are kept secret from both the public and the sect’s members. Similar to the cult tactics mentioned above, members are often encouraged to divulge their inmost thoughts to ‘spiritual directors’ which is then leveraged as a means to psychologically control behavior.  As Randy Engel related earlier this year, the secretive personal prelature seems to operate at the elite levels of society, controlling vast amounts of wealth, the details of which remain undisclosed due to the organizational structure’s private holding companies.… Reading up on the Opus Dei Awareness Network you’ll discover refugees from the Opus Dei Octagon who talk about a founding Saint who cussed a blue streak, called his assistant a sow and publicly demanded that a female cult member drop her drawers for a bare-nekked spanking. -There goes that posterior orientation again. Can we get detailed insight from James Martin, SJ on this topic? But Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer is definitely a saint, because he had an apparition of the Blessed Virgin that was never authenticated by the Church, occurred in front of exactly zero witnesses, and for which there is the same amount of evidence, none. Forgive the flippant tone so far, as the victims of Opus Dei are kept in my prayers, but the conciliar religion is such a joke.  Check out Opus Dei awareness network for further description of the suffering that these evil people create. Now let’s look deeper.…
     
    “Spanish Jєω Reveals Secret History of Opus Judei
     
    The following explanation is sent by a collaborator of Hebrew origin and Kabbalistic practice who for years was shown as Catholic, but who finally decided to make use of her secret identity to particularize and clarify some of the practices of kabbalists who infiltrated in the Catholic Church for centuries, and now in the Neo Conciliar Church.
     
    On this occasion he reveals to us something of what had spread about the Marrano José María Escriv(b)a [note: parenthetical spelling might refer to Escriva’s name change from the judaic Escriba] to Balaguer y Albás, founder of Opus Dei, and he does it from the Hebrew point of view:
     
    When you talk about the Opus Dei as Kabbalists, you have to specify something. They are not just a group of people who practice the Hebrew kabbalah disguised as devout Catholics, but something else.…
     
    From the history of Opus Dei there is much to explain, and much that is hidden. José María was a man very aware of his origin and blood. And he wanted to do something for the Spanish crypto-Jєωs, scattered and unrelated to each other. He wanted them to be together and united. It was not difficult to know who they were, you just had to look into the families of political and economic power in Spain. That is why opus are not, as it is erroneously called, a “Catholic movement for the rich”. It is a movement to unite crypto-Hebrew families and prevent them from assimilating by mixing with rich non-Hebrew families. Initially for Spain, but in a short time, Escrivá made an international expansion.
     
    “There is so much here that a summary is in good order. Centuries-old Christian-kabbalism (a very real condition!) should have our attention, as it predates the Enlightenment by centuries and causally explains much more about our present catastrophe. The writer then gives an important reminder of the crypto-judaic agenda, which we saw in previous posts with the life of the heretic Ariusthe overthrow of the Visigoths, and anti-Pope Anacletus II. Crypto-judaism moves by stealth and strategically acquires positions of power and influence within its targeted host. Principles of concealment and misdirection are used to both hide the real agenda and mislead those non-judaics who become suspicious. Judaic supremacists rigorously pursue the retention of their pure тαℓмυdic identity, even in spite of intermarriages. Secrecy supports this agenda. Finally; dichotomies such as left/right, liberal/conservative, traditional/novus ordo mean absolutely nothing to the crypto-judaic, other than a means to confuse the targeted population or actively employ the divide-and-conquer strategem. There is one loyalty alone, whether it be to the тαℓмυd, the race, or the national project. Regardless of all dissimulation to the contrary, this collective loyalty is never divided against other Judaics in favor of gentiles.
     
    “Opus Judei
     
    “In 1994, Colombian publisher Orion printed the book Opus Judei written in Spanish pseudonymously by Josemaria Escriba, the spelling representing the Opus Dei founder’s Judaic surname previous to the conspicuously altered Escriva de Balaguer.
     
    “Running a modest 246 pages, the table of contents for Chapter III and its subheadings takes up that peculiar topic which mysteriously transforms the Anglophone lions of Catholic trad-servatism into harmless little ѕуηαgσgυє Church mice. Section three is most pertinent to this post.
     
    Chapter III: The Hidden Judaism of Opus Dei
     
    • The Problem of Underground Judaism in Spain
    • Secular Infiltration of Underground Judaism in the Clergy
    • Jєωιѕн Roots of Escrivá de Balaguer
    • Kabbalistic Symbolism of Opus Dei
    • Jєωιѕн Ghettos As Model for Opus Dei
    • Opus Dei & the Jєωιѕн Question
    • Finances of Opus Dei & International Judaism
    • Identity Between the Spirit of Opus Dei & the Jєωιѕн Soul
    • Jesuit Influences in Opus Dei
    • World Government, nєω ωσrℓ∂ σr∂єr & Opus Dei [http://www.catholicapologetics.info/modernproblems/currenterrors/jopus.htm]
     
    “Fittingly per the above, the only online English translation of the book was its table of contents. The rest remains in its Spanish original, available via download at this site’s Gateway Reader Page. Non-Spanish speakers attempting to translate with Google beware: the docuмent is an imaged .pdf, meaning that there is no copy/paste function available. The only conceivable solution was to manually enter the Spanish text, copy into the translation page and then tease out the English meaning through the sometimes awkward English rendering of Spanish idiom. Motivation was found in the certainty that I had a source that neither the conciliar Christian-kabbalists nor their Judaic slave masters could keep from me a moment longer.…
     
    One can be conscious that to speak of the Jєωιѕн subject, and especially if one alludes to it without praise is a taboo subject. You have to start calling things by their names, say that in the mind of Escriva de Balaguer there was Jєωιѕн thought, that Escribá – which was his real first name – was a crypto-Jєω and that it is not possible to understand his work or interpret it if it is not related to the essential phenomenon of its interior and exterior Judaism.
     
    In the biographies of Escriva de Balaguer we miss three essential elements of his nefarious personality; three basic facts are disguised to understand the man and his Work: Escriva was Jєωιѕн, that he was a ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ and that he created Opus Dei to serve the ends of the hidden and sinister Jєωιѕн power, never for the greater Glory of God and of his Church. Escriva uses the Church and not vice versa. [Escriba, Josemaria; Opus ʝʊdɛօ; Impreso Orion en Editores; 1994; p 175-176.]
     
    “Acknowledging the Crypto-Judaic Fifth Column: Tremendous Explanatory Power
     
    Most ambitious of all [Opus Dei] is attempting to secure key positions in the government of the Church… The personal prelature will allow Opus Dei to spread everywhere ignoring the local bishops. It denies this but its record in telling the truth is poor. Its members will now be even less protected by the Church than they have been, and Opus Dei is one step closer to becoming a sect. Should it gain control over key organs of government of the Church, the spirit of the Vatican Council will be gravely threatened, as also will be the unity and moral integrity of the Church.[Opus Dei Awareness Network;  http://www.odan.org/tw_inner_world_of_opus_dei.htm; URL accessed 30 December 2017.]
     
    “Opus Dei exemplifies a dynamic of our ongoing catastrophe that no Catholic opinion shapers are willing to realize. Like on a merry-go-round, we revolve over and over again to the same points in the circle. Point one: prelate in Rome or major Catholic See scandalizes with his words or deeds. Point two: hue and cry is raised by those few Catholic pundits who still care about the Faith. Point three: same online tribunes, correctly and insofar as they understand the problem, demand action. Point four: conservative, controlled opposition engages in empty posturing.  This whole dynamic ought to make obvious to us that there is something we’re missing here; and that whatever we’re not getting is fundamental to the true nature of the problem; and that no one in the clergy, or online punditry can explain it. The failure to see the underlying cause leads to the failure to explain. Frustration turns to exasperation as the cycle repeats.
     
    “When conditions in the world devolve into ever-deepening depravity, bad Catholics are at the root of the matter. Few would deny this.  What is denied is the reality that bad Catholics have non-Catholic helpers in being led further astray, and at the dawning of 2018 A.D. this anti-Catholic help comes from within the Church.  We are afraid to acknowledge the sinister presence of crypto-Jєωry inside the Church, and this fear keeps us locked in a cycle of permanent nescience. Should the reality of crypto-Jєωry ever be broached in conversation, just watch as the counterpart takes on the countenance of one who has been lobotomized. Not only won’t they speak out on the topic, many are afraid to listen. Still more have been programmed, and stupidly relish their regular grog rations of propaganda from their favorite Hollywood, media, alt-right, or conservative opinion dispenser.  Almost all thinking on the topic is captive to the public square’s invisible ѕуηαgσgυє, and many act as if they fear expulsion therefrom. Simply put, as long as Catholics keep avoiding the question of crypto-Jєωry’s vast, patiently developed and fully structured infiltration into the Church, then the crazy train will continue on its circular track, while friends leap in desperation from its windows into sedevacantism. While it is apparent that Our Lord’s permissive will has given the devil much power and time to exercise his claim that he can destroy the Church, we might at least find current events less vexing if we properly understood cause and effect. So if we don’t want Sunday sermons explicitly sourced to the kabbalah (yes, it’s already happening), we might want to get eyes on this problem.  Opus Dei is far worse than a Trojan Horse within the gates. Although well inside the walls of Ecclesia Militans, it’s more like a huge, crypto-judaic siege-engine built to pulverize every Catholic structure still defended by rag-tag royalists.”
     
    OpusDei has as its core doctrines themes taken almost verbatim from the Baal Shem Tov (aka  Israel ben Eliezer; Besht).
    See:
    Jєωs, Church & Civilization, Volume IV, pp. 139-141.
     
    Rabbi Angel Kreiman Links Escriva's Teaching on Work to the тαℓмυdic Tradition
    ”Rabbi Angel Kreiman recently contended that Josemaria Escriva's teachings are strongly rooted in тαℓмυdic traditions about work. Kreiman, who is the international vice president of the World Council of ѕуηαgσgυєs, made his remarks in an address to a congress in Rome on Opus Dei's founder.…The Rabbi, who is a Cooperator of Opus Dei, said he wanted to demonstrate his special affection for the organization founded by Josemaria Escriva. ‘Opus Dei members helped me, right from the beginning of my seminary studies, to persevere in my vocation,’ he said, ‘and I have also seen them do it with other rabbis, for which I am deeply grateful.’”
    https://web.archive.org/web/20020213091115/www.opusdei.org/art.php?p=3007


    etc., etc. etc.