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

FTR #476 More on the Schmitzes, the Underground Reich and 9/11

REALAUDIO Com­ple­ment­ing infor­ma­tion pre­sented in FTR#469, the pro­gram details the career of Joseph E. Schmitz—a very for­mi­da­ble indi­vid­ual who is Inspec­tor Gen­eral of the Depart­ment of Defense. A mem­ber of the Schmitz fam­ily dis­cussed in FTR#469, Joseph E. Schmitz is in a vitally impor­tant posi­tion in the Pen­ta­gon and is in a very sen­si­tive position [...]

FTR #469 The Schmitzes: Republican Family Values

The life, times, and off­spring of for­mer Rep­re­sen­ta­tive John G. Schmitz.

FTR #422 True Lies: More About Conan the Republican

Schwarzenegger’s attempts to sup­press Wendy Leigh bio; Opus Dei con­nec­tions to Vat­i­can bank­ing scan­dals, fas­cist dic­ta­tor­ships in Latin Amer­ica; Aris­to­tle Onas­sis’ links to Third Reich busi­ness establishment.

The Meaning of Timothy McVeigh

by Gore Vidal­VAN­ITY FAIR Toward the end of the last cen­tury but one, Richard Wag­ner made a visit to the south­ern Ital­ian town of Rav­ello, where he was shown the gar­dens of the thousand-year-old Villa Rufolo. “Mae­stro,” asked the head gar­dener, “do not these fan­tas­tic gar­dens ‘neath yon­der azure sky that blends in such perfect [...]

FTR #289 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates

Deeply involved in the ele­va­tion of Pope John Paul II, Opus Dei has roots in the fas­cist dic­ta­tor­ship of Franco’s Spain.

FTR #98 Update on Vatican Power Politics, the P-2 Lodge and Licio Gelli

The shad­owy P-2 Lodge served as a crypto-fascist gov­ern­ment that secretly ran Italy for much of the post– World War II period.