Opus Dei

Opus Dei
Formation	2 October 1928
Founder	Josemaría Escrivá
Headquarters	Viale Bruno Buozzi, 73, 00197 Rome, Italy
Type	Roman Catholicism
Interest of	Yves-Marc Dubois, Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George
Membership	Alberto Giovannetti

Opus Dei (Latin: “Work of God”) is a Roman Catholic lay and clerical organization whose members seek personal Christian perfection and strive to implement Christian ideals and values in their occupations and in society as a whole. Theologically conservative, Opus Dei accepts the teaching authority of the church without question and has long been the subject of controversy; it has been accused of secrecy, cultlike practices, and political ambitions.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Seymour Hersh	“'We're going to change mosques into cathedrals. And when we get hold of all the oil, nobody' s going to give a damn.' That's an attitude that pervades, I'm here to say, a large percentage of the Special Operations Command, the Joint Special Operations Command and Stanley McChrystal, the one who got in trouble because of the article in Rolling Stone, and his follow-on, a Navy admiral named McRaven, Bill McRaven — all are members or at least supporters of Knights of Malta. McRaven attended, so I understand, the recent annual convention of the Knights of Malta they had in Cyprus a few months back in November. They're all believers — many of them are members of Opus Dei. They do see what they are doing — and this is not an atypical attitude among some military — it's a crusade, literally. They see themselves as the protectors of the Christians. They're protecting them from the Muslims in the 13th century. And this is their function. They have little insignias, they have coins they pass among each other, which are crusader coins, and they have insignia that reflect that, the whole notion that this is a war, it's culture war.”	Seymour Hersh	January 2011
The Philippines	“1995, Catholics for a Free Choice, 'Opus Dei: The Pope's Right Arm in Europe': "The Hanns-Seidel Foundation, based in Germany, is accredited with and receives funding from the European Union. The foundation is linked with the CSU (the Bavarian Christian Democrat) party of the late Fritz Pirkl, who was in the European Parliament and served on the boards of directors of Hanns-Seidel and the Rhine-Danube Foundation. Together with Limmat, Hanns-Seidel has funded Opus Dei’s extensive operations in the Philippines, including the Centre for Research and Communication. The centre’s "self-declared task is to form the future economic and political elite of the country," writes Opus Dei critic Peter Hertel. "Under President Corazon Aquino, Opus members have put a decisive stamp on the country’s Constitution."”	Joël van der Reijden ISGP	20 JL

 

Known members

13 of the 84 of the members already have pages here:

Member	Description
Samuel Alito	Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States who is also member of the deep state Knights of Malta and Opus Dei.
Giulio Andreotti	"The ultimate insider of Italian political life", who as Italian Prime Minister publicly confirmed the existence of Operation Gladio
Raymond Barre	French PM, single Bilderberger
Robert Bork	Solicitor General under Richard Nixon, Bork was nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1987 by President Ronald Reagan, but failed.
Claude Bébéar	French insurance executive and organizer of the business lobby.
Federico Trillo Figueroa	Spanish diplomat and politician, Opus Dei.
Robert Hanssen
Ruth Kelly	Labour MP worked for Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, then over to HSBC.
Paul Marcinkus	Led the Vatican Bank for many years, connected to several mysterious deaths, including Pope John Paul I.
José María Ruiz-Mateos
Clarence Thomas
Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne
Jean Violet	French deep politician who founded Le Cercle

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Their Will Be Done	article	1 August 1983	Martin A Lee	How the CIA targets powerful hierarchies for infiltration and influence. The Roman Catholic Church's claim to be the one and only authentic 'Church of Christ on Earth' does not exempt them from exploitation by deep politicians. This article powerfully demonstrates both the Catholic Church's power and its susceptibility to the machinations of Mammon. As they say in South America, "When the CIA goes to church, it doesn't go to pray."

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