[steve-b]

Opus Dei, the Catholic sect depicted in The Da Vinci Code as a secret, murderous organisation, denounced its representation and allowed a BBC documentary to be made. The sect's British wing reported a tenfold increase in membership inquiries in 2006

Sorting out real membership inquiries from the flood of idiots wanting to join a secret murderous organization must have been a real PITA for a while.

[Constitutions Grandchild]

“Opus Dei, the Catholic sect depicted in The Da Vinci Code as a secret, murderous organisation,...”. If any of you know members of Opus Dei, could Dan Brown's conception of the organization be ANY LESS based in reality????

We have a very active branch of Opus Dei in my suburb and these are the straightest arrows I've EVER encountered. These are the menches who go to work EVERY SINGLE DAY, pray all night long after prayers and chores and get up the NEXT MORNING and repeat. There are some devotions I have been told of (no personal experience) that are extreme by my standards, but in no way violent or harmful.

There is a house for unmarried or widowed women in a beautiful neighborhood where they live as a community. There is a beautiful building on the corner of the main street where the men and male youth study and do their “work of God”. These are not sociopaths in training. These are people who have picked up on their vocational call after they have lived their lives and feel as though they missed it the first time. They live in celibacy, they share as a community and they act as the “salt” of the earth. Sad that someone has to explain what Opus Dei is to an uneducated world.