Sample Opus Dei Informational Flyer
(Short Version)
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Please find below a sample Opus Dei Informational Flyer that can be used
to give to recruitment targets and potential recuritment targets of
Opus Dei operatives. It can also be posted up on bulletin boards, placed
in pews and/or placed in Church bulletins.
This Flyer is a good way to inform people
about Opus Dei and how they run their recruitment operations.
Handing out the flyer is an effective way to quietly counter attempted
Opus Dei incursions into a parish, young adult group, campus
ministry, CYO group or any other Catholic institution without losing
credibility.
This Flyer can be used in conjunction with the
Guide to Preventing Opus Dei Infiltration.
It is being distributed under the
GNU General Public License.
This Informational Flyer can be customized and modified in any way to suit a
particular situation to which it is being applied. Permission is granted for
this Informational Flyer to be copied anywhere in the world,
at any time, in any format. This Flyer has been reviewed by people
who have had extensive experience with Opus Dei's modus operandi.
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Useful Information About Opus Dei
aka "The Work of God" or "The Work"
Opus Dei operates essentially as a dangerous, wealthy, powerful,
mind-control cult embedded in the heart of the Catholic Church.
It seeks new recruits throughout the Church using a number of sophisticated
and highly developed psychological cultic mind-control techniques.
Please find below some information on how Opus Dei operates.
Dangerous Practices (from www.odan.org):
- Within Opus Dei, a primary activity is on getting individuals to commit their lives to Opus Dei. Members' pursuit of potential members is extremely aggressive and similar to the tactics used by cultic groups.
Opus Dei members form "teams" and develop strategies to attract new members. Opus Dei members discuss "promising recruits" at their daily get-togethers (for members only).
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Opus Dei members are typically taught to always have twelve to fifteen "friends". This leads to the
utilization of friendship as "bait."
They also start informational files about their "friends", which includes
personal information about their emotional and spiritual lives. The recruits do not know they are being
discussed and targeted in this way, a violation of their freedom and privacy.
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Opus Dei members befriend and cultivate individuals through front groups at parishes, universities and
schools. These front groups exist primarily for the purpose of attracting potential Opus Dei members.
These groups' conceal their identity to "outsiders."
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Undue Pressure to Join - individuals are relentlessly pursued to consider a vocation or calling to Opus Dei. Opus Dei members carefully stage "vocational crises" at vulnerable emotional moments in recruits' lives.
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Destruction of Marriages - Opus Dei seeks to subvert marriages for their own use. They will require one
spouse who is involved with the group to neglect the marriage so as to spend all of their free time
doing Opus Dei activities. They will also attempt to pressure the other non-Opus Dei spouse into
joining Opus Dei. Failing that, they will not hesitate to attempt to destroy the marriage to ensure
that the other spouse does not leave Opus Dei.
Further information about Opus Dei can be found on the Web at:
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Opus Dei Awareness Network:
http://www.odan.org - an international non-profit
founded by faithful Catholics in order to provide complete information about Opus Dei
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Guide on Preventing Opus Dei Infiltration:
http://home.netcom.com/~mjr40/od/guide.html -
How to Prevent Opus Dei from Recruiting Within And Taking Over A Catholic Organization
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Anti-Opus Dei Cease and Desist Order/Letter:
http://home.netcom.com/~mjr40/od/cease.html -
A sample Cease and Desist Order/Letter that can be used against intimidating Opus Dei operatives
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Opus Dei in the United States by Father James Martin, SJ:
http://www.americamagazine.org/articles/martin-opusdei.htm
- considered to be one of the best articles on Opus Dei;
authored by Jesuit priest Father James Martin, an Associate
Editor at America Magazine in New York City