CBS report on Opus Dei the Vatican's Secret Society

[lovuian]

It had a report about the organization and how secret it is.

Anybody see it?

[Warpy]

1. yeah, I went off my media fast

just long enough to see them soft pedal the whole thing, although they did mention that a few Cardinals are members. I switched back to the Simpsons.

It was just the kind of superficial bullshit that made me turn the tube off during the propaganda hour on 11/2/04. If they call THAT informative, no wonder so many people are uninformed enough to vote for Repuglicans.

[whistle]

2. Opus Dei.....

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Rise of Opus Dei under Pope has liberals concerned over succession
Financial Times (UK)/March 5, 2005
By Tony Barber

According to Roman Catholic Church rules, the choice of the next Pope will rest with the cardinals, currently numbering 118, who are under the age of 80 and who will hold a conclave in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel after John Paul II's death. But some Church-watchers are asking to what extent the cardinals' decision will be guided by a conservative Catholic movement that has steadily increased its influence at the Vatican in the twilight years of John Paul's papacy.

Opus Dei, a movement founded in Spain in 1928, is often criticised by liberal Catholics for being secretive, elitist and tolerant of seemingly bizarre acts of physical self-punishment on the part of its devotees. "One of the most powerful and reactionary organisations in the Roman Catholic Church today" is how Catholics For a Free Choice, a Washington-based liberal group, describes the organisation.

No one in the Church doubts Opus Dei's support for John Paul's theological conservatism and his hard line on sexual ethics, but the accusation of being a subversive "church within a church" cuts little ice with the organisation's 85,000 members.

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