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		<title>Opus Dei lets film director in on some of its secrets</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23496"><img src="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/graphicspics/opus dei.jpg" alt="Opus Dei" width="90" height="90" border="0" style="float:left;padding-right:5px;" title="Opus Dei"></a> British film-maker Roland Joffe is to recreate the life and miracles of Jose Maria Escriva de Balaguer, the Spanish priest who founded <a href="http://www.apologeticsindex.org/27-opus-dei">Opus Dei</a>, one of the most influential and secretive organisations within the Catholic Church. <br /><br /> The film seems set to stir up more controversy, following in the wake of several screen hits tapping into public fascination with tales of Opus-inspired crimes and conspiracies, which have set Vatican chasubles aflap. ]]></description>
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		<title>Book lifts cowl on &#8216;misogynist&#8217; Opus Dei</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 08:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Opus Dei defector tells of threats and humiliation she suffered during 13 years in the secret sect.]]></description>
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		<title>Opus Dei accuses BBC of defamation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2007 04:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The controversial religious sect, Opus Dei has accused the BBC of portraying its members as murderers, thieves and adulterers in a furious row over a popular fictional drama.]]></description>
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		<title>Ruth Kelly&#8217;s Opus Dei beliefs &#8216;incompatible&#8217; with gay rights, say Lib Dems</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2006 14:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Liberal Democrats have launched a fierce attack on Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly - insisting her personal beliefs were incompatible with defending gay rights. Equality spokeswoman Lorely Burt called on Ms Kelly - a practising member of the Opus Dei branch of the Catholic church - to stand down immediately.]]></description>
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		<title>Secretive Opus Dei honours banker who was cut up with a chainsaw</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opus Dei, the conservative Catholic organisation, has paid a rare and fulsome tribute to Gianmario Roveraro, an Italian banker who was found murdered last week, chopped into pieces beneath a motorway bridge.
The statement is as close as the group’s secretive policy allows to admitting that the pious financier was a member of the movement.
The kidnapping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opus Dei financier is found dismembered under bridge</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The badly beaten and mutilated corpse of Gianmario Roveraro, one of Italy&#8217;s reputedly most pious financiers, was discovered &#8220;cut to pieces&#8221; under a motorway overpass near Parma yesterday, some two weeks after he was kidnapped while returning home from a meeting of the conservative Roman Catholic group Opus Dei.
Three people were arrested on suspicion of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Focus: Meet the real Opus Dei</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each Saturday evening, in the privacy of his modest bedroom in north London, he removes his shirt and reaches for a five-tailed whip. Quietly intoning a recitation, he starts to scourge his back.
The cords bite painfully into his flesh, but again and again the erect figure lashes himself.
A devout Sh&#237;ite? A sado-masochist? No, not at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opus Dei out to correct bad rap it gets in book</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most potentially damaging portrayal in &#8220;The Da Vinci Code&#8221; is of Opus Dei, the pious religious movement founded by St. Josemaria Escriva in 1928 as a way of bringing ordinary people closer to God in their everyday work and life.
At the group&#8217;s New York headquarters, a box has been installed to offer literature to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opus Dei members: Da Vinci distorted</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conservative Catholic group defending itself as controversy swirls
They get together once a week in a large South Orange house where members say they talk about religion and the virtues of obedience, chastity and compassion. They say there is nothing mysterious about their organization. They say their main mission is to live a religious life, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opus Dei popularity surging thanks to The Da Vinci Code</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blockbuster bonus: Despite the rigors of belonging the secretive sect, the group finds itself enjoying unprecedented levels of public interest
It takes three years of devout learning before you can become a member and, once in, you&#8217;ll be encouraged to wear a spiked metal wire around your thigh and pray for hours a day.
On top of [...]]]></description>
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