Thread by @pleasesaveour

‼️Opus Dei Thread‼️

What is the ultra-conservative Catholic org, Opus Dei?

a Roman Catholic organization of laymen and priests founded in Spain in 1928 with the aim of re-establishing Christian ideals in society.

odan.org/what_is_opus_d…
1/

There are different classes of membership in Opus Dei:

Numerary members pledge to remain celibate and generally live in Opus Dei houses. They commit their entire salaries to Opus Dei, submit incoming and outgoing mail to their directors, and practice various forms of corporal 2/

mortification, including use of the cilice, a spiked chain worn around the thigh, and use of the discipline, a knotted rope for whipping

Supernumerary members may be married, and live with their families. They follow the same “plan of life” as the numeraries, but generally do

not know about many of the details of numerary life. They contribute large portions of their income to Opus Dei, often at the expense of their local parishes.

Numerary priests join Opus Dei as lay members, but are then hand-picked by Opus Dei superiors to become priests of
3/

Opus Dei. Numerary priests hold the top government positions in Opus Dei. Many hold important positions in the Vatican. Each Opus Dei house is assigned a numerary priest, whose responsibilities include saying Mass, hearing confessions and giving spiritual direction to the
5/

Opus Dei members.

Before the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in January, Barr had completed a questionnaire. On page 4, he listed positions he’s held as director of the Catholic Information Center (2014-1017), director of the Ethics and Public Policy Center
6/

(2004-2009) and director of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty (1994-2015).

opentabernacle.wordpress.com/2019/03/26/wil…

washingtonpost.com/local/quite-a-…
Barr l has in the past spoken with language that is in line with the goals of both Opus Dei’s and the EPPC’s overlapping agendas. This past December

Americans United’s Rob Boston reminded us of Barr’s past theological screeds. These run the gamut from condemning public schools (they had undergone a “moral lobotomy”); in a 1992 address to Bill Donohue’s Catholic League, he called for the imposition of “God’s law” in America.

In that same address he went after contemporary supporters of the separation of church and state (“The secularists of today are clearly fanatics”).

That is precisely why the Attorney General’s Opus Dei links matter. Indeed, it may explain a good deal of his behavior
8/

What is it about Republicans such as William Barr who are willing to destroy the norms of both justice and American democracy; what drives men such as him? To this observer, it seems it is the overwhelming desire to impose both a theocratic cultural agenda coupled with a

laissez-faire-tinged brand of capitalism rapidly devolving into a new feudalism.

alternet.org/2019/05/did-op…

This Is How Cults Work, Not Religions

Opus Dei just paid a hefty settlement to the victim of beltway power priest John McCloskey.

esquire.com/news-politics/…

Wealthier members use politics as the means to further its own financial as well as theological interests. ‘What no one can dismiss is the allegation that Opus seeks the adv not only of its message but also of its own interests: hence the endless courting of cardinals, bishops

and even journalists.

rawstory.com/2019/05/ag-bil…

@threadreaderapp unroll sil vous plait

https://twitter.com/threadreaderapp/status/1125059653400920064