Vatican
- Novus Ordo -
11/2/04
Preface
“Nadir, now that you are not going back to
Madagascar as a lay missionary, what are going to do? Don’t you believe
any more? Have you lost your faith?”
After thirty years, my friend’s words are still
alive in my memory. Until recently, I thought I had solved this conflict
between the Catholic Church and myself. Unfortunately, that was not to
be.
However, before I go any further, I want to
clarify my position. As a Catholic I believe entirely all the tenets of
faith of the One Holy Catholic Apostolic Church. These include the
divinity of Jesus Christ, his resurrection from death, his ascension to
his Father, and in the Holy Spirit. I believe in his holy Catholic
Apostolic Church, in the vicar of the Lord Jesus Christ, Peter’s
successor the pope. I believe in the eternal life to come, in hell, and
that Satan is God’s adversary who always wages war against God, and His
elect. I will not touch on all the other dogmas, but I assent to them
all. My aim in writing is to expose that “the smoke of Satan has entered
in the Church. It is around the altar,” as Paul VI said.
So in what follows the spotlight will be on the
Vatican, on past and present Popes, and on Opus Dei
or the Work (as its members call it).
Introduction
In the last few decades the Vatican has been a
favourite topic of the media whether scorned or feted depending on the
report. As a child I did not hear much talk about the Vatican. To me it
was just a place in Rome where the Pope resided. In fact, my parents
went to Rome for their honeymoon; but I do not remember them ever saying
that they went to the Vatican to see the Pope. It was not a big deal, I
suppose.
But after Vatican II, the Vatican became one of
the main topics in world affairs. In the 60’s, I recall a brother of
mine in the Servi della Chiesa talking about a “conciliar” priest in
Verona, who preached sermons based on nothing but the Vatican II
documents.
At the time, I
was not really interested in the subject. It wasn’t until a few years
after my arrival in Australia in 1981, that I understood the importance
of Vatican II and its history. That was the beginning of my quest for
light and understanding of the historicity of the Catholic Church in the
last two centuries, the papacy,
its financial institution
[IOR], its social policies, its alliances with the USA,
the United Nations,
Marxism, and Opus Dei,
to mention just a few.
In order to avoid
misunderstanding, the use of the word ‘Vatican’ does not necessarily
mean the Church of the faithful as a whole. It means, more often than
not, an institution where ‘…on a bright
October morning in 312 A.D., when Miltiades, the old and feeble bishop
of Rome, knelt before the Roman Emperor Constantine to received the
title of Pontifex Maximus and the promise of riches beyond measure.’
From then on, the seed
of worldly power was sown in the previously militant and persecuted
Church at its summit – the Vatican.
Part one
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II has been incapacitated since the assassination attempt
on his life in 1981. Officially, today the Pope is
the figurehead, though he is in a constant pain and his Parkinson’s
disease leaves him with poor mobility and slurred speech so that, during
homilies or official and public events, his voice is hardly audible,
except maybe for those who are near him.
John Paul’s
Parkinson disease, which to some extent incapacitates him, both
physically and spiritually, is symptomatic of what is going on within
the Catholic Church today. The disease of Pope John Paul II is symbolic
of the disease of the post-Vatican II Church, debilitated and rendered
lame - because she can no longer function spiritually, since she made
alliances
(see article "Redemption")
with Freemasonry and the Mafia.
Read:
Satan would enter into
the highest realms of the hierarchy
http://www.tldm.org/news3/highest_realms.htm
In my previous
article, “Redemption”,
I underlined the danger of such alliances,
which eventually would lead the Catholic Church to the slippery slope of
secularism and consequently to the loss of the Christian faith.
Flashback:
I recall the day when, during the monthly meeting
for catechists in Fort Carnot, Madagascar, I asked one of the elders and
supervisors of the local parish churches a disconcerting question:
“We are Christian
because we believe in Jesus Christ who died for our sins, and has risen
from death for our salvation. However, as members of the Catholic
Church, we are not alone in our faith in the risen Lord Jesus Christ. We
live our faith in a community that is the Catholic Church. Now, I ask
you: ‘If one day the majority of Catholic people, including the Pope,
cardinals and bishops, stop believing this fundamental tenet of faith -
the resurrection - and acting accordingly revert to paganism, what would
you do?’”
My reaction to his clear and crucial answer was
deep disappointment for as a catechete - religion instructor and trainer
of catechists - I thought I failed him. At the time that question was
only academic - “if”. Not so now, for the “if” became a reality in which
we are living.
For a number of
years I really believed that many of the troubles within the Catholic
Church started with Vatican II. I think now that it would be more
appropriate to say that the roots of the problems go back to the French
Revolution or even further back in history, but the problems became more
apparent in 1962-65.
Roots of problems – the various alliances
Since Constantine to our time the Church has
become involved in all aspects of worldly affairs. What is relevant
today is to see how extensive is this Church involvement, such as with
the Communist former Soviet Union, the Zionist State of Israel, and
China, among many others.
1)
On the alliance with the Communist
see
The Perestroika Deception
by Anatoliy Golitsyn,
Commentary by
Cornelia R. Ferreira:
http://www.fatima.org/news/newsviews/perestoi.asp?printer
The Vatican-Moscow Treaty:
http://www.tldm.org/news/Treaty.htm
The Pact of Metz -
Consequences
of Vatican II
http://www.traditioninaction.org/HotTopics/a007ht.htm
Topics on the same line,
click here
[or here:
http://www.novusordowatch.org/resources/John-XXIII-Beatified.pdf]
2)
Israel & Vatican
In our western society there is a romantic idea
that Israel is the legitimate heir
of one the twelve tribes of Israel.
That is a fallacy which has been promoted not only by various Christian
denominations, but more so by the Vatican. There is an abundance of
documentation in this regard.
Here are some links:
Alliance with the Zionist state of Israel:
Finally Israel and
the Vatican Agreed - December 30, 1993,
http://www.gospelcom.net/chi/DAILYF/2001/12/daily-12-30-2001.shtml;
For those who
care about the Vatican practice of “appeasement
with the Palestinians and Israel, the following excerpt speaks volumes:
Even if this position can be used as a
partisan instrument, John Paul II himself reaffirmed (at a June 2003
audience with Oded Ben-Hur during his presentation of credentials as new
Israeli ambassador to the Holy See) that while it is undeniable that
"people have a right to live in safety" this
right
"carries with it an inherent duty: respect for the rights of others".
Thus, after clearly reiterating "terrorist acts must always be condemned
as crimes against humanity" and that each state has the "inalienable
right to defend herself against terrorism", the pope reminded those in
attendance "this right must always be exercised with respect to the
moral and legal boundaries of the means" used to achieve the former. He
underscored that it is essential that Israelis and Palestinians are able
to live in
"two
independent and sovereign states".
See: “Vatican
Geopolitics. Rome’s Opposition to Israel, Point by Point http://www.chiesa.espressonline.it/dettaglio.jsp?id=6991&eng=y
Sometimes
“appeasement”
means complicity with the enemy of Christianity. Here is John Paul II
receiving a gift from a Rabbi:
On John Paul II & Judaism religion
Chief Rabbis visit Vatican
http://www.indcatholicnews.com/porabi.html];
On John Paul II & ADL
[the secular branch of the masonic B’nai B’rith]
“Statement
on the 25th Anniversary of Pope John Paul II's Papacy”-
http://www.adl.org/PresRele/VaticanJewish_96/4371_96.htm;
Pope John Paul II - special Jubilee report III:
an overview of the highlights of
the important events of the years 1989-1993
http://www.indcatholicnews.com/repthre.html
3)
Another bedfellow: Communist China
“Pope
extends olive branch to China”.
http://www.indcatholicnews.com/chinol.html
Not only the Vatican
says “no more conversion” but now: Pope John Paul II has issued an apology for errors committed by Western
missionaries in colonial times.
4) On the
alliance with the U.S.
Please read the following:
“The
Final Unholy Alliance”
“Pacelli, at that time, was the highest Vatican prelate ever to visit
the United States. So great was the Vatican’s confidence in the United
States that it had invested heavily in Wall Street, only to see this
means greatly reduced in the Wall Street Crash of 1929. However, by 1935
it was again investing in blue-chip stocks in the United States (J. F.
Pollard, The Vatican and the Wall Street Crash: Bernardino Nogara and
Papal Finances in the Early 1930’s). Pollard also claimed in his
paper that in May, 1939 the Vatican sent $7,665,000 worth of gold bars
to the United States. This move provided cash for the Papacy during the
war years. It was strange indeed that the predominantly Protestant
United States was preferred to banks of Zurich, a city which is
predominantly Roman Catholic. That Rome, recognizing the usefulness to
its purposes of the United States, sought to increase its influence in
that nation, cannot be doubted. Already the large number of Irish,
Italian and Hispanic migrants had bolstered the number of adherents to
the Roman Catholic faith in the United States, providing Rome with no
little influence there.” [See:
http://www.temcat.com/Liberty/standish/twobeasts/tb17.htm]
5)
What about ”an electoral
alliance
between conservative Catholics and the Christian Right (which) has long
had conservatives salivating.”
“Conservative Catholics and the GOP” Nov 2002,
by
Patricia Miller
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1272/is_2690_131/ai_94384315
6) And
the alliance with Mafia
“The
Mafia, The CIA, And The Vatican's Intelligence Apparatus (Opus
Dei)” -
http://www.rense.com/general6/maf.htm]
7) Or
with Freemasonry, Wall Street, Opus Dei, or the United Nations
– Is there a missing link, or one too many?
The following
excerpt shows the involvement of
the Vatican IOR with the Mafia, Freemasons & Opus Dei - Money & Usury:
“Vatican Politics, the Calvi Murder and Beyond”.
– From The America Atheist -.
“Now,
much of money from the Lateran Treaty was placed in the control of a
church agency known as APSA, the Administration of the Patrimony of the
Holy See; and after 1960,
it’s known that increasingly these investments were made outside of
Italy. Another agency was created in 1942, the so-called Istituto per le
Opere de Religioni [sic], the Institute for Religious Works. IOR was
reconstituted from another agency, the Administration for Religious
Works, which had been established by Leo XIII in 1887. In June, 1942,
Pius XII renames this
agency and places it under the control of a financial wizard named
Bernardino Nogara, who immediately goes to work using the Lateran
Treaty, and begins investing Vatican monies in banks, real estate
holding companies, and corporations. Nogara
accepts the job, but only with the proviso that the
Vatican Bank
be
permitted to begin loaning money at competitive rates of interests
(something which most “Catholic banks” did not do because of a supposed
biblical injunction against usury), and that he have autonomy in
deciding when and where investments would be made. As a result of this,
the IOR begins to establish ties with the leading financial institutions
of the world including Morgan Guaranty, Credit Suisse, Chase Manhattan
and the Chicago-based
Continental Illinois. Soon the Vatican is gobbling up interests in
corporations involved in steel production, agri-business, and insurance.
The Vatican also buys a 15% interest in the giant real estate holding
and construction company known as Immobiliare; that gives IOR a piece of
the action in everything from the Watergate Hotel in Washington DC, to
resorts in Mexico, and apartment complexes in Montreal. Working through
Chase Manhattan, the Vatican Bank also begins purchasing stock in
General Motors, Gulf Oil, Bethlehem Steel, TWA, IBM and other
major companies.”
[…]
“A Conservative Catholic
group founded in 1928 with strong ties to John Paul II
• Jose Mateos Opus Dei and P-2 member (Gelli)
• Calvi, associates claim that Opus Dei rescued Banco Ambrosiano”
[…]
Prior to his death, Calvi made very
specific statements to his close associates that in exchange for 16% of
Ambrosiano, Opus Dei was going to close the $1.3 billion dollar
hole that existed, and cover the debts of Ambroasiano’s -- and the
Vatican’s -- overseas holdings. If that were true, that means
that Opus Dei would ALSO have had to resort to some kind of financial
intrigue, including capital flight and “peekaboo” corporations, because
no one person or group could in theory own more than 5% of the stock. We
know that Marcinkus didn’t like this plan, though, because that would
have probably put a representative of Opus Dei in Marcinkus’s chair”.
<http://www.americanatheist.org/pope99/calvi.html>
“The synthesis of all the
heresies”
Here is an excerpt in relation to
the heterodoxy of John Paul II, and what Abbe Georges de Nantes has to
say about it:
« Now, this theory and practice, our Father then recalled happen to have
been denounced, rejected, condemned and outlawed in the Church for three
quarters of a century by the major Encyclical of the holiest of popes of
modern times as “the synthesis of all the heresies”, inevitably
leading to the radical destruction of religion, of the Church,
and of human civilisation itself, leaving nothing, absolutely nothing,
standing. »
The
Catholic Counter-Reformation in the 21st
century – November 2004 -
Editor : Abbé
Georges de Nantes
http://www.crc-internet.org/HIR04/Nov27_2.htm
Part two
Preamble
to ‘The Work – Opus Dei’
Flashback
Some time ago,
Angela answered the phone. It was Joe [not his real name] who wanted to
know why I had e-mailed him an incriminatory document regarding Opus Dei
and John Paul II. When Angela told him that I, not she, had sent the
offending document, Joe wanted to know if she agreed with its author.
She replied that she thought there was some truth in it, but told him
“you should speak to Nadir about it”. Angela then passed the phone to
me, and this conversation followed:
Nadir: “Hello
Joe”.
Joe: “Hi Nadir. I
talked to Angela about this document you sent to me. I find it very
offensive… It ‘s against the Holy Father… I thought you were behind the
Holy Father …”
Nadir: “To me it
is not matter of being behind the Pope or in front. I just sent this
document to you as I did to others, because it deals with Opus Dei; but
I think this matter is too complex to be discussed on phone. I would
rather talk about it in person, one to one, not on the phone.
Joe: “Yes, maybe
another time - however, if you don’t mind take my name off your list,
for I do not want any more of that kind of writing sent to me.”
And that was the
end of our conversation, and most probably of our friendship too [if
there was any friendship in the first place].
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I knew of Opus
Dei since the late 60’s, when I was living in Italy. I was told that
Opus Dei was a Secular Institute
that originated in Spain. At the time, I was a member of a Secular
Institute, Servi della Chiesa, in Reggio Emilia, Italy.
That was almost
forty years ago, when my knowledge of the Church was quite limited. It
was only in the past two years that I discovered the real nature of ‘The
Work’. And what I discovered is disconcerting, to say the least.
Change of title
I started writing
this essay under the title of “The Work – The hijacking of
the Catholic Church”. But then I
thought that “Vatican” was more appropriate, because the ‘Vatican’ is
better known internationally than Opus Dei, especially because of the
secrecy of the
latter. But now I am ahead of myself.
So what is the
role of Opus Dei today within the Church, and how much influence has it
worldwide financially and politically?
The hijacking of Catholic Church & Opus Dei
Biblically
speaking, the Church is the “boat”
or “ark” in which mankind is
saved, through and by the grace [work]
of God. Throughout history, the Church experienced persecution,
heresies, invasion by the barbarians, schisms, the Reformation, until
Vatican II opened its doors with its “Aggiornamento”
[updated reforms] in 1962-65.
Obviously people born in 1960s would not know
what the Catholic Church was like before that time, except for what they
have been told by the older generation - if there is still a
recollection of the “old Church”.
I will be sixty-five years old this year, so I
remember the Catholic Church before Vatican II. The Church I was born
into was conservative, which means that few visible changes took place
since the Council of Trent (1545-1563).
The seminaries were relatively full; convents and
monasteries did not lack aspirants for religious life; at Sunday Masses
churches were packed; family life was still held sacred; church marriage
was the norm; divorce did not exist in Italy until the 70’s; the
abortion and contraception rate was very low; parental authority went
undisputed; the Catholic school system was still Catholic - until
subsidized by governments - and so forth.
Today forty years later, though liberal thinkers
might say, “our society is just fine, except for a few bad things which
are coming good…” the facts tell me otherwise.
The Catholic
faith is not transmitted
to the new generation. Catholic people are spiritually illiterate.
Sunday Masses are poorly attended, and the youth are absent. We live in
a society where ‘de facto marriage’ is common, and one marriage in three
ends in divorce; single parenthood –previously an exception and a moral
stigma – is accepted; we have 100,000 surgical abortions in Australia,
and over 1,000,000 in the United States every year. Homosexuality and
pederasty is rampant, and the Catholic Church is not exempt. The
education system, whether Catholic or secular, is at the lowest
ebb, for many high school students are
functionally illiterate; the study of Latin, classic literature,
geography and history are no longer part of curriculum.
How did we arrive at this?
The Catholic
Church was taken over by liberals - a minority group during the Council
– who have been acting as “change-agents ever since. The ship’s skipper
is holding the wheel, but he is taking orders from the
hijackers who control of the ship.
The skipper now
is Pope John Paul II and the hijackers are the ‘Talmudists’. They are
few but very powerful. One of these hijackers who are very prominent and
close to the “skipper” is Opus Dei.
Not only “The
Work”, but also many other factions
are active within the Vatican, in order the steer the ‘boat’
in the opposite direction from what the Lord Jesus Christ intends for
Her - the kingdom of heaven.
Today the ‘boat’
is veering towards a totally secular haven - the United Nations, which
is controlled by Anglo-American establishment, by Talmudist Freemasonry;
and ultimately by the Mammonites of Wall Street.
“The Work”, as its members call it, is the
instrument of the secularists. They are the worldly, rich and powerful
people who, through their political and financial international network,
control the media and the education system; they “have the ear” of many
head of states - in eighty or so countries, especially in key positions
of the international financial and banking system.
In my previous articles,
‘Elymas’
and ‘Redemption’,
I emphasised a few aspects of the Catholic Church, such as
Vatican II, with its use of the
word “collegiality”
- to disguise a ‘democratic’
(read socialist/Talmudist) agenda -
and what that means for modern society today. Now in this third
part the emphasis will be on Opus Dei
in league with the Vatican.
Part three
Opus Dei
Here are a few excerpts, which tell of its
background and history:
“Opus Dei in the United States”
According James
Martin SJ [- AMERICA for February 25, 1995 -Copyright America Press
1995]:
OPUS
DEI IS THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL group in the Catholic Church today. To its
members it is nothing less than The Work of God, the inspiration of
Blessed Josemaría Escrivá, who advanced the work of Christ by promoting
the sanctity of everyday life. To its critics it is a powerful, even
dangerous, cult-like organization that uses secrecy and manipulation to
advance its agenda. At the same time, many Catholics admit knowing
little about this influential group. Moreover, because of the dichotomy
of views on the group, and perhaps because of its influence in Vatican
circles, it is difficult to find balanced reporting on Opus Dei……
Some Basics.
Any look at Opus Dei must begin with Msgr. Josemaría Escrivá de
Balaguer, the Spanish priest who founded the group on Oct. 2, 1928. On
that day, according to Opus Dei’s literature, while on a retreat in
Madrid, “suddenly, while bells pealed in a nearby church, it became
clear: God made him see Opus Dei.” Monsignor Escrivá, invariably
referred to as The Founder by members, envisioned Opus Dei as a way of
encouraging lay people to aspire to sanctity without changing their
state of life or occupation. Today Opus Dei sees itself as very much in
line with the Second Vatican Council and its renewed emphasis on the
laity.
[…] His group grew rapidly, spreading from Spain to other European
countries, and in 1950 received recognition by the Holy See as the first
“secular institute.” Over the next two decades The Work, as members call
it, moved into Latin America and the United States.
In 1982 Pope John Paul II granted Opus Dei the status of “personal
prelature,” a canonical term meaning that jurisdiction covers the
persons in Opus Dei rather than a particular region. In other words, it
operates juridically much as religious orders do, without regard for
geographical boundaries. This unique recognition—it is the only personal
prelature in the church—demonstrated the high regard in which it is held
by John Paul II as well as Opus Dei’s standing in Vatican circles. But
it also prompted critics to ask why a professedly lay organization would
need such a status. Today Opus Dei counts 77,000 members (including
1,500 priests and 15 bishops) in over 80 countries.
Further evidence of Vatican favor—and added legitimacy—came in 1992
when Escrivá was beatified in a ceremony attended by 300,000 supporters
in St. Peter’s Square. But coming only a few years after Escrivá’s death
in 1975 and leapfrogging over figures like Pope John XXIII, the
beatification was, to say the least, controversial. “Is Sainthood Coming
Too Quickly for Founder of Influential Catholic Group?” read a January
1992 New York Times headline, echoing other critical articles appearing
around the same time. An article in The London Spectator, for example,
included allegations by former close associates about Escrivá’s less
than saintly behavior. “He had a filthy temper,” said one, “and pro-Nazi
tendencies, but they never mention that.” …
Secrecy and
Privacy.
It is difficult to read anything about Opus Dei without running
across accounts of its alleged secrecy. (“Pope Beatifies Founder of
Secretive, Conservative Group” ran a New York Times headline in 1992.)
Indeed, while a few members of Opus Dei are well known, like the Vatican
press officer Joaquín Navarro-Valls, M.D., most are not. Critics also
point out that most of Opus Dei’s organizations are not clearly
identified as being affiliated with Opus Dei. [See:
http://www.americamagazine.org/articles/martin-opusdei.cfm]
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In
“chiesa.com”, Sandro Magister writes:
The Council
“Turned Upside-Down” and
Opus Dei.
Startling Revelations from
Giuseppe Dossetti
http://213.92.16.98/ESW_articolo/0,2393,41981,00.html
A conversation with Giuseppe Dossetti (an Italian politician, priest
and monk) from 1984 is being published today for the first time. In it,
he claims to have reversed the fortunes of Vatican II [sic]. And he has
scathing words for Opus Dei and pope Wojtyla.
[Snips]
“A previously unpublished document of major significance has just
been released. It is a long conversation he held in 1984, when he was a
monk near Bologna, with three other distinguished exponents of Catholic
culture: the rector of the Catholic University of Milan at the time,
Giuseppe Lazzati, whose process of beatification is in progress; the
historian Pietro Scoppola; and the constitutional lawyer Leopoldo Elia.
Dossetti died in 1996, Lazzati in 1986, and now Scoppola and Elia have
published in book form their conversation, which had been tape
recorded.”
In it, among other things, Dossetti shows that he was fully aware of
the influence he exercised upon the council, as the expert consultant
for Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro, who was one of the four “moderators” of
the sessions. Before becoming a theologian and a monk, Dossetti had
studied canon law, had fought in the partisan war against the Fascists
and the Germans, and then had been a leading politician in the dominant
political party in Italy, the Christian Democrats, where he had
fine-tuned his mastery of assembly processes.
At the council, he employed all of these talents with extraordinary
efficiency. In the conversation now published, there is a passage, on
page 106, where he explicitly claims to have “reversed the fortunes” of
the sessions thanks to his “partisan” aggression, determining the
victory of the innovators and the defeat of the traditionalists:
“In some fashion, our previous activity contributed to the outcome of
the council. Something was able to happen at the council by virtue of
[my] political experience, even from the point of view of assembly
tactics, which were of some value. Because at the decisive moment it was
my experience with assemblies, supported by [jurist Constantino] Mortati,
that reversed the fortunes of the council itself. [Cardinal Leo] Suenens
said to me one day, “You are a council partisan!”. I was acting as a
partisan. But apart from certain technical and assembly problems, this
brought to the council – even if it was not triumphant – a certain
ecclesiology that reflected political experience and the necessity of
not involving the Church as such in mundane things.”
Other parts of the conversation touch upon what are still burning
questions: the weight given by Pope John Paul II to movements such as
Opus Dei and Communion and Liberation. The criticism directed toward
these movements and the pope himself is harsh, and is current almost
twenty years later.
What follows is the passage that most directly concerns the
organization founded by St. José Maria Escrivá de Balaguer:
“How is This Different From Freemasonry?”
(From “A Conversation with Dossetti and Lazzati. An Interview by
Leopoldo Elia and Pietro Scoppola,” pp. 99, 109-112)
G. LAZZATI. In 1978, the problem of the relationship between the CEI
[the Italian bishops’ conference] and the pope began. This relationship
is certainly not of the best: from what I have understood, the pope does
not understand the Italian situation, being closed up within his own
Polish experience and far from the history of our country, and he
believes that his model can be applied to us. It is not for nothing that
he supports those movements, Communion and Liberation and Opus Dei,
which at bottom are seeking to apply this plan. Here is where the
short-circuit between faith and political life comes in, where the
famous autonomy of temporal realities is denied, and everything is
absorbed into the faith.
[...]
G. DOSSETTI. I think that for Opus Dei, the matter is even
more formalized [than for CL]. This is so much the case that I intend to
study within the “Commentarium pro religiosis” [...] the extract of a
document from the Congregation for Religious that authorizes Opus Dei to
work within dioceses without presenting their statutes to the bishop,
but only an extract from the statutes. One can gather everything from
this fact. [...] We are in a situation of the total lack of democracy.
[...] The new code [of canon law] recognizes the personal prelature.
[...] The council also approved the personal prelature; that is; this
form of establishment in a diocese without territory in order to form a
clergy for specific purposes, the first case being the Mission of
France. [But the council] did not provide that such groups should have a
lay constituency, [while] the personal prelatures as they have been
approved by the code and in the case of Opus Dei provide for a lay
constituency, and not only for priests who are deputized for specific
purposes. But how is this lay group determined? It is not determined by
territory, nor by rite, nor by other general conditions, but by a
contract, under the criteria of an association. It is clear that the
bishops have reacted strongly. And then there are the secret meetings.
How is this different from Freemasonry? They have special authorization
for the ordination of priests.” […]
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So does Opus Dei have a hidden agenda?
Here are some
excerpts from “The Smell of Death”, by Mark Fellows, (originally
published in the Catholic Family News, November 3, 2003) which
might shed some light in our quest. The complete text may be found at
http://www.odan.org/media_smell_of_death.rtf
It was a rainy night in Vatican City. A young man ran across the
courtyard near the Apostolic Palace. Passing under the lighted apartment
of Pope John Paul II, he entered the barracks of the Swiss Guard next to
the Palace. He wore jeans, and inside his black leather jacket was a gun.
A
nun heard him pounding up the stairs, looked, but saw nothing. The man
knocked on the apartment door of Alois Estermann and was let in by
Estermann‘s wife, Gladys Meza Romero. He took three steps into the
apartment, saw Estermann talking on the phone, and shot him twice at
close range, killing him. Turning, he fired two shots at Romero, killing
her. Dropping to his knees, he put his gun, a Swiss made 9mm SIG pistol,
in his mouth and pulled the trigger.
His name was Cedric Tornay. He was a lance corporal in the Vatican Swiss
Guard, the small army responsible for guarding the pope. The man he
killed, Alois Estermann, had just been appointed Commander of the Swiss
Guard. The motives behind the murder-suicide, and whether it really was
a murder-suicide, continue to be debated today, five years after the sad
event of May 4, 1998. It is the subject of a new book by Vatican
reporter John Follain, City Of
Secrets, The Truth Behind The Murders At The
Vatican (New York, HarperCollins Publishers, 2003).[11]
While the exact circumstances of that fateful night remain disputed, the
Vatican appears to have had immediate certainty about what happened.
Within minutes of the murder, papal spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls
[emphasis added] sealed the Estermann’s apartment. No one was allowed
near the scene of the crime, including the Italian police. Within three
hours, and before an autopsy, Navarro-Valls issued the following
statement on behalf of the Vatican:
“The
Captain Commander of the Pontifical Swiss Guard, Colonel Alois Estermann,
was found dead in his home together with his wife, Gladys Meza Romero
and Vice corporal Cedric Tornay. The bodies were discovered shortly
after 9pm by a neighbour from the apartment next- door who was attracted
by loud noises. From a first investigation it is possible to affirm that
all three were killed by a fire-arm. Under the body of the Vice corporal
his regulation weapon was found. The information which has emerged up to
this point allows for the theory of a “fit of madness” by Vice corporal
Tornay.
(pp. 14-15)”
Autopsies were performed
the next day by Vatican doctors, who were sworn to secrecy, and kept no
written reports of their conclusions. Of course, autopsies cannot
determine a corpse’s state of mind; yet it was curious that
Navarro-Valls was able to discern so quickly that Tornay, a man he had
never met, suffered from madness.[12]
The evening following the murder Cardinal Alfons Stickler publicly
described Tornay as “an individual suffering from the psychological
disorder of paranoia,” another interesting diagnosis from someone who
had never met Tornay (p. 17). It was also alleged that Tornay was high
on marijuana at the time of the murders […]
Cardinal
Secretary of State Angelo Sodano performed the requiem Mass for
Estermann and his wife (they were childless) at St. Peter’s Basilica, a
rare honor for laymen. In his homily Sodano said, “In times like these
we feel above all the need to be silent. (p. 21)” Meanwhile, on the
border of Vatican City, in the small Church of St. Anne, a private
funeral Mass was said for Cedric Tornay. Inside a
line
of Swiss Guards, some of them visibly emotional, allowed a gap for the
space where Tornay usually stood. Outside stood an overflow crowd of
confused, mourning friends.
Muguette Baudat
Cardinal Sodano’s
“need to be silent” appears to have been applied in a special way to
Tornay’s mother, Muguette Baudat. Her life had not been easy, even
before her son’s death. Twice married, twice divorced, abandoned by her
first husband and beaten by her second, she raised her children Catholic
even though she was a Protestant.[13]
She met the Pope once, briefly, when Cedric began his duties in the
Swiss Guard. After his death she wrote to the pope twice, questioning
the Vatican’s version of Tornay’s death, and received no answer.
“From the start, says
Baudat, “I was the victim of pressures, manipulation, dissimulation, and
lies. (p. 47)” She claimed that Vatican officials tried to prevent her
from coming to Rome for Tornay’s funeral. In an effort to keep her away,
Monsignor Jehle, chaplain of the Swiss Guard, allegedly told Baudat that
Tornay’s head had been ripped off his body. John Follain asked a Vatican
monsignor why Jehle would say such a thing. “Because he was told to,”
the monsignor answered, “by my boss. (p. 65)”
The monsignor’s boss is
Cardinal Sodano, who also prevented Muguette Baudat from access to the
completed Vatican inquiry into the deaths. But didn’t the pope have
anything to say about the matter? According to the monsignor,
“You must be joking. His Holiness just went along with what
Sodano
[emphasis added] cooked up. The Holy
Father is so ill he’s become a prisoner of the Curia. You realize, he’s
had five operations since the assassination attempt in 1981. Now he
takes this drug against Parkinson’s disease; its called elodea and the
side effects make him feel good
one minute and shattered the next. Oh, and
add to that confusion, paranoia, and hallucinations. But no one will
ever admit it; the Holy Father
has to appear in control, otherwise his courtiers go down with him…So
Dziwisz
[emphasis added], his secretary, does all
he can to make JP appear in control, but at night he’s woken up by his
boss, struggling to get up and pray when he is in pain. (p. 66)”
If the
monsignor is correct, the heartless decision not to respond to Baudat’s
letters about her son‘s death may not have been made by the pope. And
whatever one thinks of the Holy Father, it is difficult to imagine him
sending an envoy to Switzerland to threaten Muguette Baudat. Here is her
version of this meeting:
“He wanted to find out
how much I knew and what I planned to do about it. He gave me a rosary,
but he also threatened me in the name of his superiors, telling me I
should stop asking about Tornay’s death and think of my surviving
children. He said he was sure I wouldn’t want anything bad to happen to
them. That’s a threat isn’t it?
(p. 175)”
Her encounters with the
Catholic Church, if true, seem more like encounters with the
Mafia.
To add to the intrigue, a year
before he died Tornay confided to his mother that he and two other Swiss
Guards were investigating Opus Dei].
The less you know about it, the better, he told her. “Later,“ said
Baudat, I found out from some friends of Tornay that Estermann was close
to Opus Dei
[emphasis
added]
and had tried to recruit guards into it.
(p. 47)“
In speaking of the Vatican’s
actions following the murders, the Vatican monsignor observed: “There’s
one common thread running through this, and it’s the
Opus Dei movement.
The Estermann’s were both close to it.
Navarro-Valls
is a member, and he was very fast in getting to the scene of the crime
when he was alerted. And the Holy Father’s shadow, Dziwisz, is said to
be supportive of Opus Dei.
Given the movement’s taste for secrecy
[emphasis added],
all these people are going to follow the principle that the less said
the better.
(p. 67)”
It should be pointed out, however,
that the behaviors of some
Churchmen following
the murder-suicide exceeded a certain understandable prudent silence. It
extended to accusing Tornay of being mad or on drugs, and lying to,
threatening, and withholding information from Tornay’s grieving mother.
[…]
An ex-Guard and friend of Tornay’s recalled: “Estermann couldn’t stand
having French speakers around; he’d always tell us: ’You Swiss French
are completely out of place in the Swiss Guard. There is no room for you
here. (pp. 210-211)’”
Another ex-Guard asserts: “Tornay was a
victim. He wasn’t (of) a violent nature, but he was the victim of
bullying for three years…for the Swiss Germans he was the devil in
person. (pp. 219-20)”
Estermann was the only officer to vote against Tornay’s promotion to
lance corporal, and he was overruled. When Estermann assumed a position
of authority over Tornay, the persecution began in earnest, according to
ex-Guards. “Tornay was a great guy,” said one of them, “and the Vatican
blackened his name when he could no longer speak for himself. The truth
is that he was no better and
no
worse than others as far as discipline went…Estermann was always
hounding him.
(p. 210)”
[…]
Opus Dei
Enter the
shadowy figure
of Yvon Bertorello
[emphasis added]. A former student at Econe Seminary, Bertorello became
a thirty-something member of Vatican intelligence. He traveled to hot
spots around the world, not as a diplomat, but as an information
gatherer - a spy
(p.
45).
One of his local assignments[14]
was to spy on the Swiss Guard to gauge the extent to which Opus Dei had
infiltrated it. To this end he befriended the high-spirited, plain
spoken Tornay - a most unlikely spy. Bertorello‘s choice may have been
dictated by Tornay‘s young age, which would make him more easily
influenced, and the fact that both Bertorello and Tornay spoke French.
At any event,
Tornay became
Bertorello‘s agent.
While it was not known if Estermann was aware of Tornay’s mission,
he could have found out either from
Opus intelligence
[emphasis added], or because Tornay was
not a very effective spy. Opus
Dei’s tendency to run roughshod over enemies may explain Estermann’s
maltreatment of Tornay, a point Follain doesn‘t treat in his book.
Opus Dei has refused to comment publicly on the deaths, or Estermann’s
involvement with them. It seems evident, however, that despite his
denials
Estermann was an Opus Dei member
[emphasis
added], given his recruitment efforts,
his wife’s close relationship with Opus, and the unanimous belief among
the Guard that
Estermann
belonged to
Opus
An insider said that this caused Estermann’s promotion to Commander to
be blocked: “Many
people in the Vatican feel that Opus Dei has got its finger in too many
pies. There’s so much intrigue in the Vatican, so many factions…”[15]
[Emphasis added]
Although it is unlikely that
John
Paul II
would have blocked the rise of an Opus Dei member, it is said he
hesitated to approve Estermann’s promotion due to rumors of Estermann’s
homosexuality.[16]
Eventually
Cardinal Sodano
lobbied hard enough to push the promotion through. The initial blockage,
however, is attributed by the insider to one of the ‘factions’ in the
Vatican, and it is likely this faction is
Freemasonry.
The
battle between the Masons and Opus for influence in the Vatican is an
interesting one, given their similarities. Both are obsessively
secretive, both have a basically clueless rank and file - well
intentioned foot soldiers who serve as window dressing - and both
organizations are wealthy and ambitious
[emphasis added].
Msgr. Vladimir Felzmann
[emphasis added],
an ex Opus Dei member, believed that ”Estermann would be of great
interest to Opus Dei. Escriva’s view was that if you had the head of an
organization, you had everything. With Estermann in its grip Opus Dei
would be able to find out how the pope was, and who he saw from day to
day. It would be privy to quite a few secrets about the cardinals, their
health, that kind of thing. And among the cardinals is John Paul’s
successor. Never forget that for Opus Dei knowledge is power. It would
be able to get anyone into the Vatican; the guards wouldn’t breathe a
word. You have access, you have freedom. (p. 107)”
Although Felzmann is fond of Jose Maria Escriva, the recently canonized
founder of Opus Dei, he believes that Opus is “Orwellian, it rewrites
history: pages are torn out of old internal pamphlets and
new pages are stuck in to fit the current thinking…they believe that
any means more or less justifies the end. And now it is one of the
strongest powers in the Vatican, thanks in no small degree to the pope
himself
(p. 109)”
[emphasis added].
Asked if
the pope is actively involved with Opus Dei, Felzmann replies:
“Of course he is. In all sorts of ways…We used to bank with
Banco Ambrosiano;
I used to deposit money in our account there. When the
pope had to find two hundred million dollars that
Calvi,
‘God’s Banker,’[17]
owed the Vatican in 1982, Opus Dei came up with it. And at that time
Opus Dei was made personal prelature. When the pope wanted a new
spokesman,
Opus
Dei gave him Navarro-Valls
And all the time there is Opus Dei’s hidden
agenda
[emphasis added], to grow and grow and
grow. There are people in the Vatican who can’t stand it, but that
hasn’t stopped Opus Dei from getting more and more powerful. Of course
it would love an Opus Dei pope (p. 110).” [Emphasis added]
Felzmann concludes: “Opus Dei is like a fire. If you get close you can
get warm; if you get inside you can get burned. Tornay didn’t stand a
chance…(p.
109)”
A
Disputed Murder
Author Follain clearly
views Opus Dei as beyond the pale, for the misguided reasons common to
secular liberal journalists: Opus members are too conservative, too
pious, too involved with physical mortification, and so on. In his
conclusion about the murders he bypasses Opus Dei to place
responsibility on Estermann for his tormenting of Tornay, and the
Vatican for not stopping it.
Follain gives ample documentation of almost continual persecution of
Tornay by Estermann, Tornay’s protests, and inaction by Estermann’s
superiors.[18]
The final straw was when Estermann
withheld Tornay’s medal in an especially
sudden and cruel way: Tornay found out when he saw his name absent from
the list of medal recipients. This happened shortly before the ceremony,
after he had invited his mother and friend’s to the medal presentation.
The unanimous sentiment of Guards and others whom Follain interviewed
was that there was no justification for Estermann withholding Tornay’s
medal.[19]
When Tornay
saw his name was not on the list of medal recipients he returned to the
barracks in tears. He tried to contact the Guard Chaplain, then a
Vatican Cardinal. Chaplain Jehle allegedly refused to talk to Tornay
(Jehle denies this), and the Cardinal was unavailable. Tornay then wrote
a short letter to his mother, packed his gun, went to Estermann’s
apartment and committed two murders and a suicide.
This is John
Follain’s conclusion, anyway. Aside from replacing Tornay with Estermann
as the villain of the piece, and adding details to the story, Follain’s
conclusion is not far from the Vatican’s version: Tornay, in a fit of
passion, took three lives.
Neither version fit for
Muguette Baudat. She noticed numerous discrepancies in her son’s last
letter to her (released by the Vatican) and concluded the letter was
either doctored or a forgery. When Tornay’s body was flown to
Switzerland for the final funeral, Baudat
literally stole
the body from a Swiss morgue to have a second autopsy done by Dr. Thomas
Crompecher, professor of forensic medicine at the University of
Lausanne. Based on his
conclusions, Baudat
retained Luc Brossolet and Jacques Verges, the two French lawyers who
had defended Slobodan Milosevic before the World Court at the Hague. At
a press conference her lawyers released a seventy-five page report that
disputed the Vatican’s version of the murders and asked for a new
investigation.
Brossolet and
Verges claimed the second autopsy contradicted the Vatican’s conclusions
on several points. First, Tornay’s service pistol used 9mm
bullets, but the
exit wound in his skull measured 7 mms
[emphasis added]. Second, Tornay apparently suffered a fracture of a
cranium bone, which was not on the bullet’s trajectory. His lungs
contained a large amount of blood and saliva which could not have been
caused by suicide, but could have been caused by internal bleeding due
to blows on the head before he died. Third, the Vatican’s claim that
Tornay had an egg-sized tumor in his head (which supported the “fit of
madness” conclusion) was contradicted by the second autopsy, which found
no tumor.
The report also noted that Tornay’s front teeth were broken off, as if a
gun had been forced into his mouth.[20]
Finally, graphologists and psychologists who examined Tornay’s final
letter to his mother have also concluded the letter is a forgery.
Despite these discrepancies, which may or may not be explainable within
the Vatican’s or John Follain’s theories of how the murders were
committed, the Vatican has thus far refused to reopen the investigation.
Baudat’s lawyers are not accredited by the Vatican City State, so they
have no standing to be heard. Brossolet and Verges tried to get
accreditation, but were told by the president of the Vatican Appellate
Court that “The case is closed.“[21]
Baudat and her lawyers appealed to the pope, but there is no indication
they have received a reply.[22]
It
seems the mystery will remain unsolved for the foreseeable future. Alois
Estermann’s predecessor, former Guard Commander Roland Buchs, gave a
speech at Tornay’s funeral in Switzerland that Cardinal Sodano refused
[emphasis added] to allow him to say at the Vatican funeral. After
noting that Tornay was well regarded by his fellow guards, and that “his
first step as a young adult was to put
himself at the
service of the Church,” Buchs strayed from the Vatican story line even
further by saying:
”His act remains mysterious. Who can understand his last gesture? At
this tragic time, may ’whys’ and ’wherefores’ remain in suspense…many
questions remain unanswered. I think that God knows the real truth, and
the precise reasons behind this tragedy.[23]
The last words will be given to Cedric Tornay’s mother. After attending
her son’s funeral in Rome she remarked, “It struck me that the Vatican
smelled of death.”
http://www.odan.org/media_smell_of_death.rtf
In
summary:
from these articles it would appear that “The Work” is in full operation
within the Leonine Walls of the Vatican, as well as around the world,
where their vested interests - which undoubtedly are not part of God’s
work - are obviously at the stake
And one and last question: how much is Pope John Paul II himself
implicated in all this “Byzantine intrigue”?
We may never come
to know the whole truth. But one thing is certain, popes are as human
as the rest of us, and John Paul II is no different.
Remember Jesus’
words to Peter, which are still relevant today, maybe more than ever: “Who
turning, said to Peter: Go behind me, Satan, thou art a scandal unto me:
because thou savourest not the things that are of God, but the things
that are of men” [Mat 16:23,
Douay Rheims]
Amen
Bibliography
Books:
Forming an
Alliance –
Undermining of the
Catholic Church-
Mary Ball Martinez
Their Kingdom Come
– Inside The
Secret World Of Opus Dei – Robert Hutchison
Malachi Martin:
·
The Vatican
[a novel]
·
The Final Conclave
· Windswept House
[A
Vatican novel]
*
Vicomte Leon De Poncins:
·
Judaism and the Vatican,
· Freemasonry and the Vatican
* Papacy and Freemasonry
- Monsigneur Jouin
* AA-1025 The
Memoirs Of An Anti-Apostle -
Marie
Carre’
* Christianity vs
Judeo-Christianity – The
Battle For Truth
- Malcolm Ross She shall
crush thy head
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* The Broken Cross – The Hidden Hand in
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LINKS:
The
Perestroika Deception,
by
Anatoliy Golitsyn
http://www.fatima.org/news/newsviews/perestoi.asp?printer
Social Network Diagram
for MUSSOLINI BENITO
The Eclipse of the Church: 1958 and
Beyond
The Final Conclave
— 1978 A.D.
http://www.trosch.org/bks/rvw/martin-m.html
Spiritual Wickedness in High
Places
-
Malachi
Martin on The End of Religion (As We Know It) Interview by Uri Dowbenko
http://www.freemasonrywatch.org/malachimartin_luciferianprocess.html
Marriage of Catholicism and Socialism,
by Irvin Baxter Jr.http://www.endtime.com/03_oldsite/marriage.htm
Pope meets Kofi
Annan - 19 February 2003
http://www.indcatholicnews.com/kofia.html
Pope extends
olive branch to China -
ROME - 4 October
http://www.indcatholicnews.com/chinol.html
Pope
John Paul II - Murderer by Omission - Lethal Injection
[see
images]
http://www.trosch.org/jpi/lethal-injection.html
Site Map — Master
Index
Categorized
http://www.trosch.org/in-leu-o.htm#freem
Il Vaticano allo sportello della
banca Rothschild Dario Velo
– inserto «Domenica» de « Il Sole 24 Ore» 8/12/1991
[contemporary history]
http://www.disinformazione.it/vaticano.htm
Pontifical modernism, the humiliation of God…by
Brother Bruno of Jesus
[Abbe de Nantes]
http://www.crc-internet.org/HIR04/Nov27_2.htm
Vatican Politics, the Calvi
Murder and Beyond...
Conrad
Goeringer [History]
http://www.americanatheist.org/pope99/calvi.html
The Final Unholy Alliance
http://www.temcat.com/Liberty/standish/twobeasts/tb17.htm
The
Vatican Bank Murder of Pope John Paul I" - David A. Yallop
http://www.angelfire.com/ky/dodone/JPI.html
Pope condemns high
interest rates
-
ROME - 24 November
http://www.indcatholicnews.com/bankrat.html
Il Banco
Ambrosiano
[book]
http://www.disinformazione.it/ambrosiano.htm
Interview with
Cardinal Attilio Nicora, President of the Administration of the
Patrimony of the Holy See February 6, 2004
http://ncronline.org/mainpage/specialdocuments/nicora.htm
John
Paul II Judas Iscariot of Our Time,
by Michael A.
Hoffman II [TALMUD]
http://www.revisionisthistory.org/christian1.html
Pope and
Evolution - The Jesuit
Operative Malachi "Maimonides"
Martin Reconsidered.
Yet, in practice John Paul
II quite patently hews to Enlightenment doctrine--in his approval of
Evolution…
http://www.revisionisthistory.org/occultcatholic.html
EVOLUTION: “Truth
cannot contradict truth”
Also:
http://www.zpub.com/un/pope/nc-true.html
Israel's
Relations with the Vatican - Aharon
Lopez - the Mafia, the Vatican and the
USA. Why they enlisted war criminals,
Stalin and one-third of Europe
http://www.reformation.org/holoc13.html
Commission For
Religious Relations With The Jews International Catholic-Jewish Liaison
Committee 17th Meeting, April
30- May 4, 2001
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/chrstuni/relations-jews-docs/rc_pc_chrstuni_doc_20010504_new-york-meeting_en.html
Who
rules the Vatican
- Cardinals Ratzinger,
Sodano and Herranz, and Archbishop Dziwisz –
“Another whose influence
has increased greatly in recent months is
Cardinal Julián Herranz Casado, a member of
Opus Dei
and president of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts”.
http://www.the-tidings.com/2004/1112/essays.htm
The
Program of Christ and the Plans of Satan:
The Kingship of Christ and
The Conversion of the Jewish Nation -
REV. DENIS FAHEY
http://www.thetribulation.com/contents.htm
Covert Catholics?
Group keeps a low profile but commands
high influence Chicago Tribune/January 5, 2004
By Ron Grossman
“Lexington
College, a school on Chicago's Near West Side that specializes in
food-service management, is run by Opus Dei, a tiny religious movement
brought to public attention by the best seller
"The Da Vinci Code," a kind of ecclesiastical
mystery novel featuring a Machiavellian Opus Dei operative who takes
orders from a sinister, off-stage presence called "The Teacher."
http://www.rickross.com/reference/opus/opus44.html
Escriva de Balaguer & Pope -
source: Vatican Information Service
Independent Catholic News 2002
http://www.indcatholicnews.com/canjos.html
The
Mafia, The CIA, And The Vatican's Intelligence Apparatus -
David G. Guyatt
http://www.rense.com/general6/maf.htm
Opus Dei - The Unofficial
Homepage
http://www.mond.at/opus.dei/
Information on Opus Dei - LINKS
http://home.netcom.com/~mjr40/od/list.html
Opus Dei - The
Council “Turned Upside-Down”
- Giuseppe
Dossetti speaks:
http://213.92.16.98/ESW_articolo/0,2393,41981,00.html
Opus Dei ODAN – News
http://www.odan.org/opus_dei_in_the_media.htm
Mike Whitney - Scalia and Opus Dei
http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney01172004.html
Opus Dei -
This page contains information The Rick A. Ross Institute has gathered
about Opus Dei -http://www.rickross.com/groups/opus.html
The Smell of Death - Mark Fellows,
originally published in the Catholic Family News, November 3,
2003
http://www.odan.org/media_smell_of_death.rtf
Poison pen
stains the Vatican - Philip Willan
in Rome Saturday November 20, 1999
-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,252823,00.html
Updated:
NOTE Added on April 30,
2003: The
reader may find confusing that, in one hand we talk about Former
President Bush and his connections with Opus Dei as well as his
excellent relations with
Gorbachev. On the other hand we speak of
the control that Opus Dei has on the Vatican and on His Holiness John
Paul II yet the Vatican has strongly opposed President Bush's
invasion of Iraq.
Inside the secret world of Opus Dei:
http://users.skynet.be/sky73819/opusdei.html
Opus Dei as a Political Force:
http://www.paulrich.net/papers/opusdei.html
Opus Dei
http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/dei.html#links
Cross without Christ Opus Dei —In
their initiation rite their vows are before a cross without Christ,
this way they insult our Lord’s Passion. (They say that this performed
that way because it is the cross is of the initiated.)
http://www.geocities.com/catolicos2001/truth.htm
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