REGISTRATION: Founder’s Day with Gareth Gore on the Danger of Opus Dei
Founding members: please register for our Founder’s Day event with best-selling author Gareth Gore on his explosive new book, Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy
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Bette’s Calendar at a glance:
Sunday, Oct. 13, 11 am PT: Founder’s Day with Gareth Gore on Opus Dei — Founding Members invited
Sunday, Oct. 13, 4 pm PT: Speakeasy with Craig Unger on Den of Spies — all levels of paid members invited
FOUNDER’S DAY:
I am very excited to introduce Bette’s Founding Members to financial journalist Gareth Gore, who just released his bombshell book, Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church.
If you are not a Founding Member, you can listen to RadPod’s interview with Gareth here:
Gore explains how an extremist sect within the Catholic church has infected our country at the highest levels in its lust for power, while being linked to the trafficking of young girls.
As he explained to RadPod:
Opus Dei has been very successful at taking advantage of the legitimacy that the church has given it, certainly since the early 80s — this special status that the Pope has given it to whitewash its image, its reputation, in the public arena.
So they talk about how they all they want to do is just help ordinary Catholics to live out their faith more deeply. But as I reveal in the book, the founder of Opus Dei, right from the start, envisioned the movement as a political movement. So he set this movement up against the backdrop of huge political change in Spain in the early 1930s — this was a time when the workers had risen up. They'd thrown out the monarchy. They were tired of the old regime, including the Catholic Church, tired of the way that the Catholic Church had been complicit in all kinds of abuses towards ordinary people, not the wealthy or the aristocracy.
And the founder of Opus Dei saw this and was horrified at what was going on. So he basically set up this organization, partly to fight back at this kind of progressive revolution that he saw unfolding before his eyes. He talked about how his followers were going to be a hidden militia who would basically infiltrate every element of society — government, the judiciary, the education system, the media. They would collect information on what he called the enemies of Christ, and they would basically orchestrate this re-Christianization of society. He saw his followers as going into battle against the enemies of Christ.
And this is what these people believe today. This isn’t what Opus Dei talks about when it's going out and recruiting, but this is what fundamentally drives the organization. I've been very fortunate in getting hold of many foundational documents… locked away and people aren't allowed to see them. They've been hidden from the Vatican. The Vatican hasn't had a clue about this kind of hidden agenda of Opus Dei, and so I've been very lucky in being able to get my hands on them and to tell the world about them for the first time.—Gareth Gore on RadPod
He will explain the links between Opus Dei and such Trump allies as Leonard Leo and William Barr, and what that meant for the US decline in rule of law; how the Opus Dei “cult” can be found at the nexus of power and how it was rooted in fascism; how Opus Dei engages in “litigation terrorism” to try to keep reporters from exposing its power grabs. He’ll likely share a story about the worst spy in US history, who was dissuaded by his Opus Dei priest from turning himself in, thus continuing to spy for another two decades, putting American agents at risk and resulting in multiple assassinations of American double agents.
Plan on a very exciting and illuminating hour.
Details + book link:
FOUNDER’S DAY: Sunday, October 13, 11 am Pacific — Gareth Gore in a Q & A about his book, Opus. Always grateful to those who support our featured authors by buying their books!
I will be sending out a separate registration invite for Craig Unger’s visit with us, also this Sunday, and open to all levels of paid membership.
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Thank you as always for your support.
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