Opus Dei: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church | Gareth Gore
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Today on the James Alteger Show. This is certainly what I argue in my book. It's also an abusive cult. This is a group that basically abuses ordinary Catholics' desire to kind of go deeper into their faith, to become more serious Catholics. It kind of latches onto that and then it
it kind of takes advantage of things like confession and spiritual guidance sessions to get into the brains of people, to get into their lives, to collect information about them, and then to manipulate them to furthering its aims. And so officially it's this officially sanctioned wing of the Catholic Church, but unofficially, it's an abusive cult that has drawn in many unsuspecting Catholics over the years. He started to describe his followers as a rising militia. He saw them as this kind of this secret army that would kind of insert itself into society, in particular into positions of power inside society.
And He saw his followers as being as kind of tasked with using their influence in those positions to fight back against this progressive agenda. But because this is an organization that's built on these hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of pages of rules, this kind of system of abuse and control and manipulation, all written by the founder, you know, at some stage, that kind of takes over. It's a cult and, you know, bit by bit they're drawn in and they justify to themselves that what they're doing, even if they have some misgivings about what they're doing, you know, maybe I shouldn't be recruiting this 10-year-old kid or whatever, you know, even if they're having misgivings, they tell themselves that this is what God wants.
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