The tag 'Opus Dei' is associated with 26 posts.

Seymour Hersh: Joint Chiefs of Staff Dominated by Knights of Malta, Opus Dei

“New York Times” jour­nal­ist Sey­mour Hersh main­tains that U.S. Joint Chief­sof Staff are dom­i­nated by offi­cers belong­ing to, or sym­pa­thetic to the Knights of Malta and/or Opus Dei.

Gay Theologian Expounds on the Church’s Homophobia and Shift to the Right

Com­ment: A recent Spiegel arti­cle recorded the obser­va­tions of  David Berger, a gay for­mer Catholic priest. Berger dis­cussed homo­pho­bia in the Church and among its pow­er­ful sup­port­ers, as well as the Church’s polit­i­cal lurch to the right. Inter­view With Gay The­olo­gian David Berger: ‘A Large Pro­por­tion of Catholic Cler­ics and Trainee Priests Are Homo­sex­ual’”; Spiegel Online; [...]

Vatican Bank Chief’s Free-Market Ideology and Opus Dei Background

Com­ment: Ettore Gotti Tedeschi–head of the Vat­i­can Bank–espoused the free-market ide­ol­ogy that led to the crash of 2008. Tedeschi has also advised then Car­di­nal Ratzinger and helped him write an eco­nomic the­sis. (Ratzinger became, of course, Pope Bene­dict.) Not sur­pris­ingly, Tedeschi  is a mem­ber of Opus Dei, the fas­cist lay Catholic order that has been [...]

Links Between IHH (the Flotilla Sponsor) and “neo-Ustache” in Croatia

Com­ment: The Balkans offices of IHH–the Turk­ish NGO that spon­sored the Flotilla inci­dent in May–are in Zagreb, Croa­tia. In that loca­tionl, the orga­ni­za­tion was able to coor­di­nate the attack against the Serbs with the Croa­t­ian “neo-Ustache” of Franjo Tudj­man. Lis­ten­ers are encour­aged to access the vast vol­ume of infor­ma­tion about the Balkans wars to flesh [...]

Vatican Bank Being Investigated for Money Laundering

Com­ment: For many years, we’ve looked at the Vat­i­can Bank–the IOR (Insti­tute for Reli­gious Works.) Long a vehi­cle for the financ­ing of fas­cism and crim­i­nal under­tak­ings, the insti­tu­tion has FINALLY come under inves­ti­ga­tion for money laun­der­ing. (The Vat­i­can Bank was dis­cussed at length in AFA #18.) “Vat­i­can Bank ‘Inves­ti­gated over Money Laun­der­ing”; BBC News; 9/21/2010. [...]

Vatican Lawyer for Abuse Case Defended the Vatican Bank in Holocaust Suit

Com­ment: In the recently re-aired FTR #508, we exam­ined the ascen­sion of Pope Bene­dict, whose elec­tion came at a time when unfold­ing Vat­i­can scan­dals threat­ened to unravel, reveal­ing that institution’s darker side for the blood-soaked hor­ror show that it truly is. Avail­able evi­dence sug­gests that Ratzinger/Benedict is a prod­uct of the Vatican/fascist axis so exhaustively [...]

New Archbishop of L.A. a Spanish Member of Opus Dei

Com­ment: With Latin influ­ence in the U.S. ris­ing with the growth of the Amer­i­can Spanish-speaking pop­u­la­tion, it is both inter­est­ing and sig­nif­i­cant that the Pope selected a mem­ber of the reac­tionary, fascist-connected Opus Dei to be the Arch­bishop of Los Ange­les. This appoint­ment con­tin­ues a pat­tern of con­ver­gence between the Vat­i­can and Opus Dei dating [...]

FTR #696 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates

Japan­ese prime min­is­ter pub­licly dis­cusses the M-Fund, a deci­sive link between Japan­ese con­quest dur­ing World War II and its post­war pol­i­tics; Ital­ian prime min­is­ter Berlus­coni linked to the Mafia; Chris­t­ian fun­da­men­tal­ist orga­ni­za­tion The Fam­ily pro­mot­ing fas­cism from the 1930’s on.

FTR #677 Update on Global Fascism

The old SS giv­ing rise to new fas­cism in Aus­tria and Ger­many; Mussolini’s heirs move into the Ital­ian main­stream; Con­ti­nu­ity of for­eign pol­icy between the “new” Ger­many and the Third Reich.

FTR #556 Update on 9/11 and Related Matters

Recorded June 11, 2006 Lis­ten: MP3 Side 1 | Side 2 REALAUDIO This pro­gram sup­ple­ments pre­vi­ous pro­grams about the 9/11 inves­ti­ga­tions. Of pri­mary sig­nif­i­cance is the fail­ure of the United States to pro­vide Swiss author­i­ties with infor­ma­tion about the A.Q. Khan nuclear smug­gling net­work, as well as the fail­ure of the inter­na­tional com­mu­nity to successfully [...]