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Kevin Roberts, architect of Project 2025, has close ties to radical Catholic group Opus Dei
The Guardian ^ | 07/26/2024 | Rachel Leingang and Stephanie Kirchgaessner

Posted on 07/26/2024 8:45:02 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

Heritage Foundation leader has long received spiritual guidance from group and his policy goals align with its teachings

Kevin Roberts, the Heritage Foundation president and the architect of Project 2025, the conservative thinktank’s road map for a second Trump presidency, has close ties and receives regular spiritual guidance from an Opus Dei-led center in Washington DC, a hub of activity for the radical and secretive Catholic group.

Roberts acknowledged in a speech last September that – for years – he has visited the Catholic Information Center, a K Street institution headed by an Opus Dei priest and incorporated by the archdiocese of Washington, on a weekly basis for mass and “formation”, or religious guidance. Opus Dei also organizes monthly retreats at the CIC.

Kevin Roberts, the Heritage Foundation president and the architect of Project 2025, the conservative thinktank’s road map for a second Trump presidency, has close ties and receives regular spiritual guidance from an Opus Dei-led center in Washington DC, a hub of activity for the radical and secretive Catholic group.

Roberts acknowledged in a speech last September that – for years – he has visited the Catholic Information Center, a K Street institution headed by an Opus Dei priest and incorporated by the archdiocese of Washington, on a weekly basis for mass and “formation”, or religious guidance. Opus Dei also organizes monthly retreats at the CIC.

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KEYWORDS: bravado; heritagefoundation; kevinroberts; opusdei; project2025
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Very long article. Well worth the read.

I trust Project 2025. I trust the Heritage Foundation. And even though I know little to nothing about Opus Dei, I'm leaning towards trusting them based on the bias this Guardian article is throwing their way.

Anybody have more info on Opus Dei? Pro or Con?

1 posted on 07/26/2024 8:45:02 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

Trump said it’s not his plan and he was not involved. This is a GOP power play. They need to STFU if they aren’t going to coordinate with him.


2 posted on 07/26/2024 8:48:41 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: Responsibility2nd

The article did go on to say John Paul II promoted Opus Dei and Francis is against it.

As the saying goes..... Whatever my enemy is against - I’m for.


3 posted on 07/26/2024 8:49:13 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (2 coups in less than 4 years. America is truly a first world Banana Republic.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Opus Dei is a Conservative group within the Catholic church. Kind of the opposite of the Jesuits which Frances is one. Don’t have other specifics.


4 posted on 07/26/2024 8:51:31 PM PDT by vivenne
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To: Responsibility2nd

They wrote a 900 page plan .... Trump’s is 18 pages.


5 posted on 07/26/2024 8:51:33 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: Responsibility2nd
Stop paying attention to Leftist rags like the Guardian. This is the Left's latest unfounded attack on Republicans.
6 posted on 07/26/2024 8:51:47 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason (Where is the vaunted Q team?)
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To: vivenne

Are they the ones with that albino assassin monk in DaVinci Code?


7 posted on 07/26/2024 8:52:29 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: Responsibility2nd

When any left-wing source puts the word “radical” in front of the word “Catholic”, take whatever they are saying on the subject with an ENORMOUS grain of salt.

Leftists hate Catholicism, and Catholics.


8 posted on 07/26/2024 8:55:00 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: Responsibility2nd

May I ask who asked The Heritage Foundation to release ANYTHING? My guess is absolutely no one. But here they are, creating a boogeyman for the left to run with, AND tie it to a guy who claims he knows nothing about it, hurting him against the retards who may still be undecided.


9 posted on 07/26/2024 8:56:17 PM PDT by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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To: Responsibility2nd

I went way back here....

https://freerepublic.com/tag/opusdei/index

Back in 2005 when the Da Vinci Code came out - much was written about its link to Opus Dei.

FWIW.


10 posted on 07/26/2024 8:57:28 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (2 coups in less than 4 years. America is truly a first world Banana Republic.)
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To: DesertRhino

Trump said it’s not his plan and he was not involved. T

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Trump can say that, but his close aids and associates are heavily invested in it.


11 posted on 07/26/2024 8:58:39 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (2 coups in less than 4 years. America is truly a first world Banana Republic.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Opus Dei is simply an organization for Catholics who are serious about their faith. There’s nothing creepy or spooky or nasty about it, but some members keep their membership to themselves in order to avoid the suspicions of lefty Catholics and non-Catholics. Wasn’t the late Justice Scalia rumored to be a member?


12 posted on 07/26/2024 8:59:56 PM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: Responsibility2nd

NOT TRUMP. Trump has disavowed this, has nothing to do with it and every article and post about it just drags it out more to keep giving Democrats and the media a chance to beat Trump up over it.


13 posted on 07/26/2024 9:01:00 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Biden's Given His Farewell Address, So When Is He Leaving?)
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Opus Dei is hardly radical or secretive.

I ama member. It is basically a prayer group with conservative values.

You could come and pray alongside too. Not the Dan brown nonsense


14 posted on 07/26/2024 9:03:44 PM PDT by Cronos (I identify as an ambulance, my pronounces are wee/woo)
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Anybody have more info on Opus Dei? Pro or Con?

Politically, they aren't as conservative as (for instance) TFP (Tradition, Family, Property).

Their founder Jose-Maria Escriva is canonized, though not without controversy.

Originally, they had a personal prelature, being directly under the Pope. This gave them a LOT of autonomy. Francis made some changes, weakening them:

(From perplexity.ai) In 2022, Pope Francis issued an apostolic letter called "Ad charisma tuendum" which made some changes to Opus Dei's status:
It transferred responsibility for Opus Dei from the Dicastery for Bishops to the Dicastery for the Clergy. It decreed that the head of Opus Dei can no longer become a bishop


They usually go along with whatever comes out of Rome without much in the way of pushback, good or bad. They are not active on behalf of the Traditional Latin Mass.

HOWEVER, at least the NYC branch seemed to work behind parents' backs to recruit minors, employing secrecy, even when the parents' faith and morals are unquestionable. They keep a pretty strong spiritual grip on members. I don't think it falls into "cult" status, but it gets closer to the line than I am comfortable with. They have both clerical and lay members. They focus on converting elites under the idea that if you convert a person who influences many other people, more good gets done. They have had some notable successes in this area. In a way, they are trying to fill a gap left by the Jesuits when they went crazy.
15 posted on 07/26/2024 9:04:32 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: Responsibility2nd

The Guardian is a communist rag. It’s purpose is to routinely slander Christians and other conservatives. The aforementioned publication never criticizes Islam in any way, shape or form.

If The Guardian is against Opus Dei, that’s a good sign that Opus Dei is a good organization.


16 posted on 07/26/2024 9:10:45 PM PDT by CrimsonTidegirl (Demonrats aren’t Americans. )
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To: vivenne; Responsibility2nd

The Jesuits are a semi monastic religious order of priests and brothers. They are partially like parish priests but have stricter views of poverty and are missionaries, unlike diocesan priests who generally stay in one diocese giving pastoral care.

They are trained to be able to operate independently. Their training is longer than that for most priests, so they tended to become a sort of intellectual elite, heavily involved in education with their own universities and schools. Probably more than any other order they were involved in scientific research and discovery, in particular astronomy. Jesuit missionaries reached China and fascinated the Emperor with western science and learning. Had the Vatican listened to them 1680–1720, and permitted Liturgy in Chinese, much of China might have been converted to Christianity. .

After Vatican II however, many Jesuits became increasingly liberal. They took “the preferential option for the poor” and sometimes an explicitly political stance in liberation theology. Fr Jorge Bergoglio, aka the future Pope Francis, had a difficult time as Jesuit Provincial in Argentina in 1973–79.

You can be a lay person who attends mass at a diocesan or a Jesuit or a Franciscan or Dominican etc parish and the prayers and worship and numerous bible readings at mass is the same and the sermon depends on the preacher. You wouldn’t see a difference.

Opus die on the other hand is a group within the church consisting of both clerics and laity. Its stated mission is to help its lay and clerical members to seek Christian perfection in their everyday occupations and within their societies. Lay people make up the majority of its membership; the remainder are secular priests under the governance of a prelate elected by specific members and appointed by the Pope

Opus Dei emphasizes the “universal call to holiness”: the belief that everyone should aspire to be a saint, as per Jesus’ commandment to “Love God with all your heart” (Matthew 22:37).and “Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.” (Matthew 5:48)

Opus Dei exhorts its members and all lay Catholics to “find God in daily life” and to perform their work as a service to society and as an offering to God. It stresses the importance of work and professional competence.


17 posted on 07/26/2024 9:22:47 PM PDT by Cronos (I identify as an ambulance, my pronounces are wee/woo)
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To: Responsibility2nd
"What is Project 2025 and what is Trump’s involvement?"

Trump isn't involved. It's the Heritage Foundation wish list.

18 posted on 07/26/2024 9:24:24 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: Responsibility2nd

The Da Vinci code is really bad fiction. Opus dei dates to the late 1800s and doesn’t have monks, leave alone albino assassin monks.


19 posted on 07/26/2024 9:24:33 PM PDT by Cronos (I identify as an ambulance, my pronounces are wee/woo)
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To: Responsibility2nd

This is the conspiracy theory that underpins the fictional novel “The Da Vinci Code.” Don’t these moron pseudo-journalists have anything better to do with their time?


20 posted on 07/26/2024 9:47:43 PM PDT by The Old Hoosier (Right makes might)
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