Sunday, February 15, 2004
"After I joined they gave me a barbed wire chain to wear on my leg for two hours a day and a whip to hit my buttocks with."
Sharon Clasen, former member of Opus Dei
"Blessed be pain. Loved be pain. Glorified be pain"
Josemarie Escriva, Founder, Opus Dei Whether or not an alleged member of Opus Dei, like Justice Antonin Scalia, enjoys a touch of the lash on his prodigious derriere from time to time, is certainly no business of ours. However, the affiliation of a Justice on the highest court in the land to an organization that, for all appearances, is nothing more than a right-wing cult should arouse not only suspicion, but an investigation.
Opus Dei is a clandestine Catholic organization based in Chicago, Ill. In size, it is insignificant, a mere 85,000 members (only 3,000 members in the US) compared to the one billion Catholics worldwide. But, its membership boasts of some of the most powerful and wealthy people in the country. The group catapulted to national attention when spymaster, Robert Hanson, was arrested and convicted in what turned out to be the greatest act of treachery in the history of the FBI.
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