#opusdei — Public Fediverse posts
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Opus Dei 🌍 La secta católica global que se está volviendo clandestina
Publicado por el consorcio de investigación sobre la Internacional Reaccionaria
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Laibach, maybe one of the least understood bands in the universe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB9lObWclFQ&list=RDLB9lObWclFQ&start_radio=1
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#PopeLeo excommunicated far right group. Is this a prelude to a crackdown on the bigger rightwing threat, #OpusDei ?Vatican Excommunicates Breakaway Group, in Biggest Schism in 156 Years https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/world/europe/vatican-society-st-pius-excommunication.html
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"For the Christian church as a whole, this is one of those crucible moments, where we are tested to see whether we will be true to Jesus or succumb to the lure of amoral powers. Will we be the church of the papal princes like Alexander VI, the church of bigoted influencers like Fr. Charles Coughlin? Or, conversely, will we be the church of St. Francis of Assisi, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Oscar Romero and Servant of God Thea Bowman?"
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"It's not the 1960s anymore. Catholics are not a persecuted minority in the United States. We are a powerful political force. This force can be wielded for justice or for injustice, and Catholics need to come to grips with the fact that the tale of institutional Catholicism working against justice is woven through our 2,000-year history, globally and in the United States."
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"This is not a matter of anti-Catholic vs. Catholic. It is, rather, a struggle for the soul of the church, a clash between those who wish to weaponize religion for domination, and those who want it to be a source of healing and liberation. …
Flirting with authoritarianism is, in a sense, part of the Catholic tradition — the part that far right radical traditionalists want to reclaim."
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"Let's not forget that white Catholics helped get Trump elected, and that high-powered, well-funded Catholic groups are intimately involved in the MAGA movement, and have been orchestrating and manipulating it. Despite the MAGA movement's innate sexism, conservative Catholic women influencers have worked, both covertly and overtly, to promote Trump."
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Their attack on democracy is an attack on members of minority communities they seek to other, to represent as different from and lesser from those who should by natural and divine law dominate everyone else.
Rebecca Bratten Weiss writes,
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Alito is a prime example. It should not be forgotten that Alito's wife — obviously with his complicity and approval — has fantasized about flying flags attacking LGBTQ people.
These are folks — the right-wing Catholic bloc controlling the Supreme Court are folks — actively hostile to all sorts of minority groups.
#SupremeCourt #Catholics #MAGA #OpusDei #democracy
/2https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/10/us/politics/alito-pride-flag.html
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Rebecca Bratten Weiss's article about the MAGA split within the US Catholic church is timely, in light of the fact that a bloc of Supreme Court justices controlled by right-wing integralist Catholics, most witwh strong ties to the secretive, wealthy, theocratic-aspiring Catholic cult Opus Dei, have just gutted the Voting Rights Act.
This bloc is actively working to undermine democracy.
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As Lauren Egan notes, with upcoming empty seats on the Supreme Court anticipated, "the possibility of a Supreme Court confirmation fight has been the subject of rampant chatter among the Washington political class."
#JohnRoberts #SupremeCourt #RobertsCourt #transparency #accountability #corruption #WhiteChristianNationalism #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #OpusDei #ShadowDocket
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"Remember when Amy Coney Barrett said of her colleagues 'we’re not a bunch of partisan hacks?' Well, they are a bunch of partisan hacks. And the number one partisan hack is John Roberts."
~ Norman Ornstein
#JohnRoberts #SupremeCourt #RobertsCourt #transparency #accountability #corruption #WhiteChristianNationalism #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #OpusDei #ShadowDocket
/6https://xcancel.com/NormOrnstein/status/2045843172828295264#m
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"whatever was necessary to advance a conservative, pro-business, pro-religious cultural agenda seemingly dictated by The Federalist Society, the Koch Brothers network of billionaires, and arch-conservative Catholic Leonard Leo."
#JohnRoberts #SupremeCourt #RobertsCourt #transparency #accountability #corruption #WhiteChristianNationalism #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #OpusDei #ShadowDocket
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"In conjunction with other conservative justices (notably Scalia, Alito, Thomas, and Kennedy), Roberts began reshaping long-standing jurisprudence by expanding and contracting the 'strike zone' at will—" (continued in /5)
#JohnRoberts #SupremeCourt #RobertsCourt #transparency #accountability #corruption #WhiteChristianNationalism #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #OpusDei #ShadowDocket
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"The memos leaked to the NYTimes confirm what many court observers have long believed: that Roberts is manipulating the rules of the Court to advance his personal and political beliefs, which are centered around a conservative, pro-business, white Christian worldview."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#JohnRoberts #SupremeCourt #RobertsCourt #transparency #accountability #corruption #WhiteChristianNationalism #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #OpusDei #ShadowDocket
/3https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/john-roberts-isnt-calling-balls-and
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"The scoop highlights the conservative justices’ brazen disregard for their own rules — both then and now — and the ways in which they are now ignoring the concerns that allegedly animated their action a decade ago."
The NY Times report by Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak is linked below.
#JohnRoberts #SupremeCourt #RobertsCourt #transparency #accountability #corruption #WhiteChristianNationalism #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #OpusDei #ShadowDocket
/2https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/us/politics/supreme-court-shadow-docket.html
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"On Saturday, The New York Times published a story about the U.S. Supreme Court’s actions a decade ago blocking the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan on what has become known as the shadow docket."
~ Chris Geidner
#JohnRoberts #SupremeCourt #RobertsCourt #transparency #accountability #corruption #WhiteChristianNationalism #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #OpusDei #ShadowDocket
/1https://www.lawdork.com/p/the-2016-memos-roberts-supreme-court-mess
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The growing rift between the Vatican and Trump will hopefully lead to the very scary and secretive Opus Dei losing some of its influence both in the US and in Rome.
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A mí, no sé, antes de ir a salvar #mujeres del #machismo de otros paises, o decir que no sé quién no puede llevar velo (que las tocas no no nos tocan los #cojones, por lo que sea) me plantearía no financiar a #OpusDei con colegios concertados. Y otras movidas de #favor. Se me ocurre, no sé, llámame #radical. Y mira que no hablo de #religion. Que no se financie, que cada quien se pague sus #rituales. Y que se investigue a esta como una #secta.
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"Together, they threaten to remove long-standing tools for the public to hold corporations accountable.
A ProPublica investigation has found that most of these bills are part of a coordinated effort, orchestrated by a constellation of groups that share staff or have funding ties to the prominent conservative activist Leonard Leo, who is credited with placing conservative justices on the U.S. Supreme Court."
#LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #OpusDei #SupremeCourt #oil #gas
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"Across the country, Republican-led state legislatures are passing a slate of laws that effectively shield oil and gas companies from legal claims that they are responsible for the destruction and mounting toll caused by climate change. Fifteen laws have either been passed or are currently being debated in 11 states.".
~ Abraham Lustgarten
#LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #OpusDei #SupremeCourt #oil #gas
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"Remember Leonard Leo, the brains behind the carefully constructed conservative majority on the Supreme Court? According to the good people at ProPublica, he’s been a busy little lavishly financed bee hard at work wrecking other parts of the country on behalf of the oil and gas industry."
~ Charles Pierce
#LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #OpusDei #SupremeCourt #oil #gas
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Great informative article!
Thanks for sharing.
"after the investigation, these public prosecutors concluded that there were absolutely grounds to charge the group with #HumanTrafficking and serious labour offences. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Since the #Argentina allegations have come out, we’ve had more #women coming forward in places like #Ireland, #Mexico, #France, #Spain."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/06/opus-dei-gareth-gore-pope-leo#Religion #Politics #OpusDei #Catholic #Abuse #News #Press #World
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"What’s ironic is that you have the leader of the Catholic church speaking out against war and against the way that immigrants are being treated. That shows this co-option of the Christian identity by Opus Dei to be a complete fallacy; it’s all for political expediency. It’s about these people’s own deeply authoritarian and conservative views about how the world should be run."
#OpusDei #PopeLeo #Vatican #MAGA #SupremeCourt #LeonardLeo #KevinRoberts
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"People like Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation [and the force behind Project 2025], is a regular at the Opus Dei centre in central DC and gets his spiritual direction from them. You’ve got Leonard Leo, who helped to orchestrate the conservative takeover of the supreme court and sits on the board of the Opus Dei centre in central Washington. The list goes on."
#OpusDei #PopeLeo #Vatican #MAGA #SupremeCourt #LeonardLeo #KevinRoberts
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"In places like Washington, [Opus Dei has] made a real concerted effort to infiltrate the corridors of power and has been immensely successful. I would argue that today, Opus Dei within the Maga Republican movement is one of the pre-eminent forces. There are several very high-ranking figures inside the White House and the wider Maga ecosystem who are either full-on members of Opus Dei or big supporters."
#OpusDei #PopeLeo #Vatican #MAGA #SupremeCourt #LeonardLeo
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"He could send Opus Dei there to do his work or be his eyes and ears. He gave them this special status that has never been granted before or since in the history of the Catholic church."
Wolfson: "What is that status?"
Gore: "He made them into this thing called the 'personal prelature', which basically meant that they were answerable to no one but the pope."
#OpusDei #PopeLeo #Vatican #MAGA #SupremeCourt #LeonardLeo #PopeJohnPaulII
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Wolfson asks Gore if the Vatican has the power to rein in Opus Dei. Gore responds:
"The Vatican helped to create this monster, not least Pope John Paul II because he saw them as political allies in his conservative crusade. He saw them almost like his personal green berets that he could send off to any part of the world where there was some kind of progressive priest or bishop who was causing trouble."
#OpusDei #PopeLeo #Vatican #MAGA #SupremeCourt #LeonardLeo #PopeJohnPaulII
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