OPUS DEI: ITS TRUE FACE

Here I present the first ever translation (surprisingly, given its importance) from the original Spanish of an important collection of texts and citations published in the early 90s by a certain “Juan Morales”. The study can be conveniently downloaded as a PDF file by clicking here; as the original author makes clear, all citations in the work are from original sources from Opus Dei’s official publishing house, “Rialp”, and hence represents the “official” thinking and doctrine of the sect. What clearly stands out from these citations is the manifestly liberal character of Opus Dei, a liberal spirit directly running contrary to the anti-liberal spirit that must be at the core of any Catholic genuinely attempting to “restore all things in Christ”. Following up from this study by “Juan Morales”, I have published my own six part series on the “Work” that drills down in even further detail the theological reasons why liberalism must be frontally rejected with the utmost force, and which also investigates the gnostic roots behind this sect.

“I am a secular priest: priest of Jesus-Christ, who loves passionately the world.” (José María Escriba y Albás, homily delivered at the University of Navarre, Pamplona, October 8 1967)

“He [José Maria] always encouraged you to ‘love the world passionately’ (…) The earth, your Blessed Founder reminds us, is a pathway to heaven…” (Address of "St" John Paul II "The Great" to members of Opus Dei, January 12, 2002).

“Love not the world, nor the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, is the concupiscence of the flesh, and the concupiscence of the eyes, and the pride of life, which is not of the Father, but is of the world.” 1 John 2:15-16

“Adulterers, know you not that the friendship of this world is the enemy of God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of this world, becometh an enemy of God.” James 4:4