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Opus Dei, Advocatus Papae
Pepper, Curtis Bill | August 3, 1992 issue

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The article presents information about sainthood of José Maria Escrivá de Balaguer, the founder of Opus Dei, a powerful and secretive movement of 75,000 Catholics. Escrivá is placed on the course for sainthood by Pope John Paul II, but it is claimed that his beatification is only a fraud and a scandal and John Paul has done it to increase the power and worth of Opus Dei's clerical and lay cadres in serving his pontificate. This act explains John Paul's use of Opus Del's troops to achieve his goals. In his mind, the separation of sacred and secular, clergy and laity, and men and women is immutably fixed by a priestly ministry in the church and a lay apostate in the world.

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ESCRIVA de Balaguer, Jose Maria, Saint, 1902-1975; OPUS Dei (Society); JOHN Paul II, Pope, 1920-2005; CHRISTIAN saints; RELIGIOUS movements; FRAUD; SCANDALS
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