{"id":1812,"date":"2005-09-30T08:24:19","date_gmt":"2005-09-30T08:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/09\/word-up-12.html"},"modified":"2005-09-30T08:24:19","modified_gmt":"2005-09-30T08:24:19","slug":"word-up-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/09\/word-up-12.html","title":{"rendered":"Word Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Allen’s Word From Rome previews the Synod on the Eucharist, beginning next week.<\/a><\/p>\n

A UK Tablet review of Allen’s forthcoming book on Opus Dei<\/a><\/p>\n

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The method Allen follows is to take the case against Opus Dei and sift it. Thus, he takes an article published in the magazine America<\/em> in 1995 which says the statutes of Opus Dei are secret. Next he interviews the article\u2019s author. Then he finds that the statutes are all in a book printed by an Opus Dei affiliated publisher, and there is a translation on the internet too. He also quotes a prohibition of secrecy in the statutes of Opus Dei themselves, approved by the Vatican in 1982. <\/p>\n

Though struck by the \u201cstartling ferocity\u201d of criticisms by a proportion of former members, Allen concludes that Opus Dei is no Gothic horror. One of the funniest passages comes when he investigates what he has been told by a hostile ex-member is the \u201cOpus Gulag\u201d, housing \u201cmad numeraries\u201d on the notorious fourth floor of a clinic at the Opus Dei-run University of Navarre. Instead, the author finds a mild-mannered psychiatrist of international standing who shows him round and tells him that of the 25 men and women presently being treated at his clinic, none is in Opus Dei. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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