User:Alecmconroy/Controversies about Opus Dei

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[edit] Early Controversies?

      • Specific Controversies ***

[edit] Support for Franco

[edit] Support for Hitler

  • Felzmann quotes


  • Prelate denial
  • saint for our times
  • Ex-member

[edit] Secretivity

  • Escriva quotes
  • Constitution quotes.


  • Privacy

[edit] Aggressive recruiting

[edit] High controlling

  • Forbidden Books
  • Mail
  • Contact with families


  • Emphasis on personal freedom
  • Estrangement is appropriate

[edit] Mortification

  • Mortification as practiced by numeraries
  • Mortification as practiced by Escriva


  • Other saints
  • Safe, controlled

[edit] Role of women

  • Female clergy / prelate
  • Numerary assistants


  • "different one"
  • women lead women's branch

[edit] Canonization of Escriva

[edit] Critics as unreliable and biased?

  • Anti-cult Crusaders

[edit] Criticism as religious bias

  • Jesuits & liberal catholics as jealous
  • Critics as secularists

[edit] Controversies as a Sign of Contradiction