[The Solomon Key and Beyond: Dan Brown News] A wholesome reality shines beyond the dark conspiracy - Comment - Times Online

October 7, 2005 by wfzimmerman | No comments

/blockquote>A wholesome reality shines beyond the dark conspiracy - Comment - Times Online: “A wholesome reality shines beyond the dark conspiracy
By Ruth Gledhill
Two books suggest that Opus Dei is much less lurid than its image in bestselling potboilers
OPUS DEI has enjoyed an avalanche of lurid publicity in the past year or so.

Thanks largely to The Da Vinci Code, the potboiler by Dan Brown that has sold more than 7 million copies in the UK, the worthy and respectably dull Roman Catholic organisation has found itself accused of dark plots, of harbouring murderous albino monks, of wallowing in masochistic mortifications and more besides.

So strident has the popular attention been that the Vatican felt it had to appoint a cardinal to rebut the book’s inaccuracies — Opus Dei has no monks, albino or otherwise — and many groups have dedicated websites to the topic - see for example, www.life4seekers.co.uk/TheDaVinciCode-resources.htm

Amid the furore, Opus Dei’s spokesman, Jack Valero, seems slightly bemused as he weighs up the suggestion that the media fuss might have done the movement a favour by attracting new recruits.

High time, then, for a book to bring this personal prelature of the Pope, founded in Spain in the 1920s by Josemar�a Escriv�, into the light of day. And as chance would have it, we now have two, published in the space of a few weeks: What is Opus Dei? by Noam Friedlander (Conspiracy Books �8.99) and Opus Dei: Secrets and Power Inside the Catholic Church, by the Vatican correspondent John Allen (Penguin, �20).”

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who do we appreciate?
OPUS DEI! OPUS DEI!

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