FTR #559 The Opus Dei Code – The Vatican Rag Pt. III

Recorded June 18, 2006
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The movie “The Da Vinci Code” has focused pub­lic atten­tion on the Opus Dei order, a reac­tionary Catholic orga­ni­za­tion with strong his­tor­i­cal links to fas­cism. High­light­ing its influ­ence on the cur­rent pope and his pre­de­ces­sor, this pro­gram sets forth some of the areas of influ­ence of this secre­tive orga­ni­za­tion. Play­ing a significant [...]

Is Brownback Bringing Opus Dei Into The Senate?

by Bob Geigerhttp://www.democrats.com/node/9220

The United States Sen­ate is often called “the great­est delib­er­a­tive body in the world” which usu­ally raises the bar on the tenor and intel­lec­tual con­tent of speeches given on the floor and for the offi­cial record.
Not so for Sen­a­tor Sam Brown­back (R-KS) who took to the Sen­ate floor last week to deliver [...]

God’s Senator

Who would Jesus vote for? Meet Sam Brownback

At the Vet­er­ans Day parade in Empo­ria, Kansas
Nobody in this lit­tle church just off Times Square in Man­hat­tan thinks of them­selves as polit­i­cal. They’re spir­i­tual — actors and ath­letes and pretty young things who believe that every word of the Bible is inerrant dictation [...]

FTR #529 Nazi Roots and Fascist Flowers

Recorded Octo­ber 9, 2005
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This broad­cast details some of the fruits that have been borne by the col­lab­o­ra­tion between ele­ments of U.S. intel­li­gence and Nazi and fas­cist groups from World War II. Begin­ning with dis­cus­sion of the Ukrain­ian fas­cist OUN/B and its affil­i­ated orga­ni­za­tion the ABN (Anti-Bolshevik League of Nations), the pro­gram high­lights the posi­tion of [...]

Thou shalt not drool

Georg Gän­swein is the poster boy of Catholic con­ser­vatism. The Ital­ian press com­pares him to George Clooney and Hugh Grant; his crit­ics describe him as the ‘Black For­est Ado­nis’. But how did he end up as the new Pope’s right-hand man? And is he the right per­son for the job?
By Luke Hard­ing and Bar­bara McMa­honTues­day August [...]

FTR #521 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates

Recorded August 7, 2005
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NB: This stream con­tains both FTRs 520 and 521 in sequence. Each is a 30 minute broad­cast.
Intro­duc­ing new sto­ries and updat­ing old ones, this pro­gram begins by not­ing a grow­ing body of infor­ma­tion sug­gest­ing that the sub­ject of “seis­mic war­fare” is not as whacky as it sounds. After not­ing Yasser Arafat’s business [...]

Their Kingdom Come

Inside the Secret World of Opus Dei, by Robert Hutchison

FTR #508 The Vatican Rag, Part II: Der Panzerkardinal

Ger­man Car­di­nal Joseph Ratzinger—dubbed “Panz­erkar­di­nal” by wags because of his reac­tionary views.

Controversial Opus Dei Has Stake in Papal Vote

SELECTING A NEW POPE
By Larry B. Stam­mer and Tracy Wilkin­son
ROME — When Pope John Paul II arrived at Opus Dei head­quar­ters one March day 11 years ago, even mem­bers of the ultra­con­ser­v­a­tive lay reli­gious move­ment long accus­tomed to Vat­i­can favor saw the visit as a sin­gu­lar moment in the group’s ascen­dancy within the Roman Catholic Church.
The [...]

AFA 17–21: Who Shot the Pope?

A major intelligence-related con­tro­versy of the late Cold War, the shoot­ing of Pope John Paul II in 1981 was widely and mis­tak­enly blamed on the Soviet Union.