Members of Opus Dei try to set record straight

Rocky Mountain News ^ | 19 May 2006 | Jean Torkelson

[AlaskaErik]

My wife called them a secret society and she's a converted Catholic. But I'm in the process of unconverting her.

[Tax-chick]

Useful article - thanks for posting.

[Alex Murphy]

Contrast that with Markel, the -real Opus Dei member: a 48-year- old father of five who likes to golf, ski and fly-fish.

He'll reluctantly see the film "because I have friends in the world who will ask, and I want to be able to talk intelligently about it."

Another of the 20 or so Opus Dei members in Colorado is Clare Chavez, 33.

Funny, they don't look like albinos...

[bornacatholic]

When I lived in Maine, an Opus Dei Priest used to stop at my house for supper on his way north of where I lived for meetings with those interested in the Order.

I could tell you the name of this kind brilliant Spanish Priest but he would prolly have me killed.

BTW, the meetings of this secret society were widely publicised, they were open to anyone, even non-Catholics, and I went to a few even though they were not my cup of meat

[Campion]

My wife called them a secret society

Your wife is wrong; there's nothing secret about O.D. at all.

Members don't usually go around broadcasting their affiliation, but that's about as secret as it gets.

[Campion]

Funny, they don't look like albinos...

Opus Dei went on a world-wide search for a member named "Silas". They finally found one (only one); he's a middle-aged stockbroker in NYC with bunch of kids.

He's also a black gentleman, who immigrated from Nigeria some time ago. :-)

[shield]

bttt

[Zionist Conspirator]

Opus Dei is also attacked regularly by anti-Semites as an organization of Spanish marranos (secret Jews) who are working EE-villy to Judaize the Catholic Church. Of course, any religion that recognizes the TaNa"KH (Hebrew Bible) as its own scripture is going to be somewhat "Judaized" by its very nature (perhaps anti-Semites would like to see it "de-canonized?").

Since the whole purpose of the Jewish religion is to saturate the lives of every single Jewish man, woman, and child with holiness (Orthodox Judaism possesses no "clergy" in the classic sense) then I suppose it is somewhat Jewish in outlook.

[marshmallow]

Your wife is wrong; there's nothing secret about O.D. at all.

Ssssshhhhhh...........that's supposed to be a secret............not too many of us are "in" on that one.

[FJ290]

Ssssshhhhhh...........that's supposed to be a secret............not too many of us are "in" on that one.

Let's enlighten those that think it's such a secret society shall we?

http://www.opusdei.org/

Take a look around the site and you will see how "scary" this organization really is. GASP! They even suggest going out and spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ. The horrors of it all! ;.)

[fishtank]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1635283/posts

[A.A. Cunningham]

Don't ping me to your BS posts.

[Conservative til I die]

My wife called them a secret society and she's a converted Catholic. But I'm in the process of unconverting her.

Endangering one's spouse's soul is something we should all aspire to.

[AlaskaErik]

Endangering one's spouse's soul is something we should all aspire to.

I'm not endangering it, I'm just helping her get back on the right path. Since she was a Christian before being led astray her salvation is not in question.

[AlaninSA]

Since she was a Christian before being led astray her salvation is not in question.

Were you born an ignorant, obnoxious and clueless puke - or do you have to work at it?

[Religion Moderator]

Knock off the personal attacks!

[AlaninSA]

Perhaps you could take a stand on the bigoted and ignorant attacks on the Catholic Church as well.

Is that too much to ask?

[Religion Moderator]

Click on my profile page for more the guidelines.

[AlaskaErik]

Were you born an ignorant, obnoxious and clueless puke - or do you have to work at it?

Actually, I was born a Catholic, but I eventually saw the light and it wasn't coming from Rome.