Sentences with phrase «opus dei»

With the game's focus on a fictional doomsday cult in Montana, Ubisoft sent actor and comedian Danny Wallace to trapse around the Sussex town — the logic being that East Grinstead is home to the UK centre for Scientology, as well as hosting a number of other religious groups such as the Rosicrucian Order and Opus Dei.

Friday update: Today's Scotsman hints at potential clashes between Ruth and the SNP candidate, David Kerr, contrasting the facts that she is a lesbian and he is an member of Opus Dei.

The Wikipedia article on Opus Dei, the somewhat controversial, conservative institution of the Roman Catholic Church, currently explains an aspect of the institution's leadership selection procedures...

The Opus Dei member and former education secretary got into hot water in 2007 when it emerged she had put one of her children into a private school.

(b) he was surrounded by nutcases and / or was being driven by factions dominated by Opus Dei and other powerful «right - wing lobbyists», and (c) that, partly through his physical limitations, he had reverted to a safety - zone of Polish paranoia and traditional devotions bordering on superstition.

As for Opus Dei, it is hardly a «Catholic sect».

It uses the scandals of Vatican finance and sexual abuse, coupled with tired tropes about Opus Dei and the Latin Mass, to craft Pope Benedict XVI as a miserly conservative plotter.

Ms. Kelly, a Roman Catholic and member of the Opus Dei sect, has clashed with Alan Johnson, her successor as Education Secretary, who is concerned that she is trying to water down the plans because of her religious beliefs.»

By the end of the novel, after more than 500 pages of calumny against the Catholic Church, the reader learns that «both the Vatican and Opus Dei... [turn] out to be completely innocent» (559).

Referring to its founder in his penultimate book, John Paul II noted: «In October 2002 I had the joy of canonizing Josemaria Escriva Balaguer, the founder of Opus Dei, a zealous priest, and an apostle to the laity in modern times» (Pope John Paul II, Rise, Let Us Be On Our Way, 117)-- not the words a Roman Pontiff would use to describe the founder of a «Catholic sect».

I know what you are and you were hired by Opus Dei / Santorum / Jindal... Yeah, I am on to you and all the O.D. hate trolls.

Inconvenient facts, such as the affability of an Opus Dei source, or the theological orthodoxy of the Holy Father, are dismissed.

In 1992 he beatified the founder of Opus Dei, Msgr. Josemaria Escriva, who died in 1975.

Opus Dei is, they say, a secretive, cult - like organization that is running a vast international conspiracy with unlimited funding and tentacles reaching into the most unlikely centers of power.

For those of a leftist disposition, it is sufficient damnation that Opus Dei members were prominent in the government of General Franco.

And there are others in Opus Dei who speak in a similar vein.

A lot of you come in thinking this is Da Vinci Code 24/7 and when you find out it is boring and mundane you start groups like Opus Dei or enter the priesthood and take your frustrations out on innocent people.

In short, Opus Dei is «controversial.»

Orthodox Catholics who otherwise have the greatest respect for the Pope have had bad experiences with Opus Dei and think that maybe he does not always know what the organization is actually doing.

The Pope has spoken of Opus Dei as an instrument of energetic orthodoxy that is a great gift for the renewal of the Church and its mission in the world.

For a «journeyman» it sure is strange that you didn't know that «Opus Dei» was created in the highest levels of the Vatican.

As the founder of Opus Dei said, commenting on the same passage of Matthew, «If we were consistent with our faith when we looked around us and contemplated the world and its history, we would be unable to avoid feeling in our own hearts the same sentiments that filled the heart of Our Lord.»

To hear some folk tell it, Opus Dei (The Work of God) belongs to that company, except it is bigger and more dangerous.

Be that as it may, in forming one's approach to Opus Dei, the strong and consistent affirmation of John Paul II can not help but carry very considerable weight.

Today Opus Dei has about seventy - seven thousand members in eighty - three countries, including fifteen hundred priests and fifteen bishops.

One can not emphasize too strongly that Opus Dei understands its mission to be the revival of the lay apostolate.

Since it was established in Spain in 1928, there have been a slew of books attacking Opus Dei, and we are told that more are in the works.

The Opus Dei presence has not always been welcomed by Catholic ministries on campuses, and this has occasioned some notable controversies.

He is an extraordinarily personable gentleman, and we have had long conversations about, inter alia, the importance of Opus Dei in his life.

The cause, it seems, is sometimes personality conflict, sometimes a too aggressive approach by Opus Dei, and, in a number of cases, resentment by super-progressive priests of a movement that proposes a different, and deeply conservative, way of being Catholic.

He does not push the movement, but speaks in a matter - of - fact and utterly persuasive manner about how Opus Dei has helped him to understand and sustain his vocation as a Christian layman.

It is seldom mentioned that those same Opus Dei members were key players in Spain's successful transition to democracy.

The charge heard again and again is that Opus Dei is secretive and cult - like in recruiting new members.

The plot thickens through the violent machinations of an albino monk who works for Opus Dei, an actual Roman Catholic organization portrayed by Brown with lightly veiled contempt.

In keeping with its origins in traditionalist Spain, Opus Dei is quite rigidly classist and sexist; thus, university - trained people are segregated from others and men are segregated from women, who are given essentially housekeeping jobs.

Communion and Liberation is not secretive, but like Opus Dei it targets young people and is obviously not at home in a pluralist society but intends to remake society to fit its ideals.

Among the ridiculous claims Brown forwards is that «the Church» — by which he means the «sinister» forces of Opus Dei and the Vatican — is bent on destroying the «Sangreal documents» by any means, including violence, because they allegedly reveal the secret truths about Jesus» marriage to Mary Magdalene and disclose the grail's true identity.

She profiles the Knights of Malta, Opus Dei, Communion and Liberation, and Tradition, Family and Property.

While Opus Dei and Communion and Liberation have few adherents in the U. S., they are strong in certain countries of Europe and Latin America.

Descriptions given by those who leave Opus Dei make it sound rather like a religious cult whose members lose personal autonomy.

The Vatican's press secretary: Joaquin Navarro - Valls, is a member of Opus Dei.

It's amazing that Rick Santorum and other Catholics of the Opus Dei variety concentrate so much on «sin» and far less on getting their hands dirty helping people.

In such circles, the Legion of Christ was a natural target — just as Opus Dei had been, just as the Neocatechumenate had been, the list is endless — whatever its founder had or had not done; it seemed natural to suppose that that was what really lay behind the campaign against Fr Maciel.

On this scenario, the Lefebvrists would be given a pass on the Council's affirmation of religious freedom, ecumenism, and interreligious dialogue, and would return to full communion through the mechanism of a «personal prelature,» the same structure that governs Opus Dei.

In late 2010, I began weekly study of the Catechism of the Catholic Church with a man from Opus Dei who has become a treasured friend.

The British Professor Luke Gormally has emerged as the most prominent and effective protagonist of Fr Rhonheimer, a priest of Opus Dei.

And there are no entries at all for sometimes controversial groups such as Cursillio, Opus Dei, and Focolare.

Bill Deacon reminds me of Silas of Opus Dei in the Da Vinci Code.

She is the «Opus Dei» the work of God in His Christ.

Afterwards he was accompanied by Fernando Sáenz, a Spanish Opus Dei priest who was a close friend of his and who would later succeed him as archbishop, to the church where he was to celebrate Mass..