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What we're trying to do here is to bring you to the end of the year with this exploration of the Illuminati that started at the beginning of January, so right at the beginning of 2023.
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And we will keep on exploring the Illuminati until the end of the year, and then in January we will kick start again.
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The introduction was... - That was lame, actually.
That was a lame little dance, but whatever, we'll make up for you. - At the end.
At the end, once we went through this very important show, because when you talk to somebody about the August day Of course, they know the Opus Dei through Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code.
That is basically, you see, up until Dan Brown came out with the Da Vinci Code, the Opus Dei was kind of living their secretive life amongst the people of the Catholic Church.
Without really being noticed too much, but becoming increasingly popular and powerful.
So what is the Opus Dei?
The Opus Dei is basically an institution that was founded by a Jesuit, and this already, a Jesuit whose motto was love be pain, Sanctified be pain, glorified be pain, it's all about the pain.
Loved be pain, sanctified be pain, glorified be pain.
This is basically the Escriva, Jose Maria Escriva, the founder of this organization.
which is one of the most powerful organizations described even by a Jesuit general as a form of Freemasonry.
So let's first of all describe the kickstart of this organization.
The founder, who is now a saint, also the nomination as a saint on the 17th of May 2022 of Jose Maria Escriva was very controversial.
He was born in 1902, died in 1975.
He was a Jesuit.
He founded the Opus Dei.
And before he was canonized, during, let's say, the initial stages of the Opus Dei, he involved what used to be the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
General Francisco Franco was the guy who, on the contrary of Adolf Hitler and Mussolini, who ended their dictatorship in 1945, he went on and ruled Spain from 1939 to 1975 as a dictator, assuming he went on and ruled Spain from 1939 to 1975 as a dictator, assuming the title of Caudillo, which is basically the leader, a bit like il It's kind of like the strongman, the warlord.
This is a term used in Spain.
This guy, who of course managed to impose a dictatorship, still though with the support, of course, of the monarchy, because Spain is to this day still a monarchy.
But it was really thanks to Francisco Franco that Jose Maria Escriva managed to establish this very important and powerful order.
Who everybody knows mostly for their, of course, corporeal mortification, especially those scenes that we see in the Da Vinci Code with that albino guy.
So as, of course, you have copyright issues and I don't want to infringe them, I want to show you this scene.
From an external perspective, because even if the Opposite Day people say it is slightly exaggerated, these people, they do this kind of thing.
And now we will explain also why, and we will explain also what they do.
And it is like, you know, they are punishing themselves.
They are punishing themselves.
That's how it is.
I wish Biden would punish himself.
Well, yeah, he should join Opus Dei.
Maybe he already did.
Okay, so here we have basically that scene from the Da Vinci Code in which he goes and you see he has... Oh, I hate this scene.
I always cover my eyes.
Yeah, but the scene needs to be explained.
Why is he doing this?
Why is he doing this?
I don't like that.
- Oh, okay, let's go. - I don't like it. - No, because it's important. - I don't like that.
- Okay, so let's discuss a little bit, because I mean, we need to explain to, first of all, The power of the Opus Dei, but also this custom of corporeal mortification, because it needs to be explained a little bit.
So, I have a small clip by Reverend Michael Barrett, the priest of Opus Dei, who actually answers this question.
We will, of course, always be very critical of whatever the Opus Dei clergy puts forward to us, because we need to be critical.
Here we have though an explanation that I think will be very important for those people who are tuned in today.
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In the meantime, let's understand through the words of an Opus Dei priest.
Opus Dei priests constitute only 2% of the whole organization.
After, I'm also going to explain to you how this organization is divided.
Part of prayer life is that we pray not only with our heart and our minds, but we also pray with our bodies.
We pray as persons, body and soul, so that mortification becomes a very important part of the prayer life of anybody who's striving for holiness.
In the history of the Church, the saints have always emphasized the importance of penance, sacrifice, self-denial, mortification, in order to grow closer to God.
St.
Josemaria following on the footsteps of all those great saints and that spirituality indicated that penance and mortification were crucial to our being able to grow closer to God.
The forms of mortification that are most common are doing your work well, finishing things on time, being punctual to start things on time, putting up with contradictions of everyday life with a cheerful attitude, the car breaks down, you don't feel well, it's raining out, it's cold, you're just Take those things and be cheerful and joyful about them.
Those are the ordinary mortifications.
Smiling when you don't feel like it because you're dealing with a person who annoys you.
These are things that St.
Josemaria said make the heart of our life of penance.
The corporal mortifications practiced by some celibate members, what are they?
In order to grow even closer for those people who are trying to go deeper in their spiritual understanding of the redemptive sufferings and to really grow in spirituality, he recommended traditional practices of corporal mortification that have been in the Church for centuries, such as using asyllus.
These are corporal mortifications that were practiced throughout the centuries of the Church.
Mother Teresa used these things, Padre Pio The earlier saints, St.
Francis, St.
Dominic, all used these kinds of practices of corporal mortification, along with fasting, abstaining from meat, things that are probably more understood in the universal church and even beyond the church as ways that we grow in spirituality, that we have to deny ourselves some of the comforts of this life in order to be open to the spiritual.
So denying things that, of course, can bring us satisfaction, denying things that we are used to, because we're used to eat, that is part of the penance, you know, and it's part of the mentality of the Opus Dei, which actually picks up on old traditions of penance, which They're still in place in some parts of Spain.
Now, we talked about the founder, this controversial founder.
Let's check out when he was canonized, because he was made a saint and, you know, it was quite controversial.
Not everybody wanted him as a saint.
Do you have any questions, Cristina?
This is that guy you showed before?
How can they make a Jesuit a saint?
Well, I mean, they made other Jesuit saints.
I mean, of course, they even made the founder of Jesuit order saint.
By the way, the Jesuits initially were opposed to the Opus Dei, We're going to discuss also that.
It wasn't like the Jesuits endorsed immediately the birth of the Opus Dei, because the Jesuits were the most powerful order in the Catholic Church in Spain at that time.
So, this is what happened in 2002.
It was the last period of John Paul II's life.
He was... You see, the thing with the Opus Dei, Cristi, is that the Opus Dei was very successful, I think, because it was born in Spain in a fascist environment and became also a way for Catholics who wanted to still oppose that
That growing liberation theology, left-wing Jesuit theory that kind of sparked up after the Second Vatican Council.
So let's see here the canonization.
Pope John Paul II is engaged in a race against time.
His days on this earth are clearly numbered, but his resolve to revitalise the Catholic Church is unyielding.
The pontiff believes that nothing fires the faithful like the making of saints.
He's created more than any other pope in history.
And this, his 464th canonization of saint-making ceremony, is arguably the most controversial.
In front of 300,000 people, a Spanish priest, linked to the fascist regime of General Franco, is elevated in the Kingdom of Heaven.
The Church is written in the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Mary is written in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit, the Lord of the Holy Spirit.
Since his death in 1975, Josemaria Escrivá has been fast-tracked to sainthood in record time by a pope who long admired his anti-communist, ultra-conservative brand ultra-conservative brand of Christianity.
Opus Dei means God's work in Latin.
Critics claim it translates as Catholic fundamentalism.
These members of an unashamedly elitist movement aim to influence and change society from the very top, taking their message into the workplace as politicians, lawyers, businessmen and journalists.
The message from our founder and the message from the Opus Dei is always the same.
Everybody can be a saint, must be a saint, but sanctifying the everyday life.
Everybody in their minds can be a saint.
They dedicate themselves to an obsessive use of the rosary or prayers.
They also practice the Latin Mass, but don't get confused because there are two types of Latin Mass.
There is the classic, the Tridentine Latin Mass, which is used by, say, the Vacantists, mostly in traditional Catholic organizations.
Instead, the Latin Mass used by the Opus Dei is the Novus Ordo Mass, so still Latin, but it's the Reformed Rite.
After the Second Vatican Council.
José María Escrivá never really opposed the validity of the Second Vatican Council on the contrary of Monsignor Lefebvre.
So here we have an organization that is also very powerful organization aside from all the various mortification and of course the corporate mortification is a characteristic we just heard the Reverend Michael Barrett, the Prince of the Opus Dei, answer questions regarding this specific subject.
Now The actual power and influences of the Opus Dei is what might interest more a lot of you.
The Opus Dei has really controlled for a long time the finances of the Vatican.
And that's why it's important to understand how they arrived to control one of the largest financial institutions in Europe, the Banco Santander, which is one of the biggest and most influential banks in the whole of Europe.
On top of that, I had a direct experience with the Opus Dei because back in the days when I used to work at Villa Leone in Bologna, we used to have our meetings there with the Monte Carlo Lodge of the P2, Carlo Maria Baserga of the Opus Dei joined the Monte Carlo Lodge and was elevated from Enter Apprentice to 33rd degree in one day because of his role in the Opus Dei.
And there is a lot of double membership, people who are Opus Dei but also infiltrate and enter Freemasonry With the permission at times of their numeraries, what are the numeraries?
This is also very important.
We need to explain how the Opus Dei works.
We need to also talk about this very questionable So, there is a lot of things to discuss, all the various controversies that the Opus Dei has, which are quite a few.
And regarding the controversies of the Opus Dei, first of all, we need to understand the The role of the Jesuits in all this, because like I said at the beginning, Jose Maria Schiava was indeed a Jesuit.
The Jesuits are themselves an organization which has been criticized for acting often, you know, outside of the boundaries of Christianity, of Catholicism.
And here we have, with Opus Dei, An historical opposition initially by the Jesuits to Jose Maria Escriva, by the Superior General of the Society of Jesus of that time, who was Father Vladimir Lekicovsky, who died in 1942, who basically told the Vatican he considered Opus Dei very dangerous for the Church in Spain.
Opus Dei was founded in 1928.
Okay?
Here we are, 11 years before the Second World War kickstarts, 1928.
Spain was in a very difficult situation because there was this civil war.
I mean, Francisco Franco became the dictator after the communists killed thousands of priests and waged war against religion in a way that the reaction to that can only be more religion and more conservatism.
If you go and kill, it's like a reaction.
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Now, the Society of Jesus and the Superior General of that time, the Black Pope of that time, described the Opus Dei as having a secretive character And he also, quote, said, signs in it of a covert inclination to dominate the world with the form of Christian masonry.
This was said by a Jesuit general.
So initially, the Jesuits, you know, they had this Jesuit who started this organization, who suddenly gained momentum.
During the initial period of the Opus Dei, they gained so much momentum that large parts of the armed forces in Spain were actually controlled by the Opus Dei.
So for that reason, a lot of people now, after the end of the dictatorship in Spain, thought it would be wrong to nominate a mozo saint.
But, you know, it was so powerful, the Opus Dei, especially the financial sector.
They were so powerful in the financial that they pushed John Paul II to nominate this Jose Maria Escriva in record time saint of the Catholic Church.
Now, it wasn't only the Jesuit, the superior general of the Jesuits who said that it was a Christian form of Masonry, Christian Masonry.
There was also Licia Gelli, Worshipful Master of the P2 Lodge, who said it was a Christian, Catholic, he called it white masonry, he called it.
That was the terminology I remember used by Licia Gelli.
It is true that For almost all their history, they supported the right-wing causes, the conservative causes, because they were born within that.
But then it's also true that they started to modify and become more flexible when they started to recruit members, for example, in the UK Labour Party, like Tony Blair.
So, Opus Dei and politics... Isn't Opus Dei?
Yes.
Wow, that's weird.
Tony Blair became Catholic after finishing his term in office and after it came out that he was also an Opus Dei member.
There is also a lot of connections that the founder himself of Opus Dei had, which would make some people estranged with the idea that this guy is a saint.
Because he even had good words for Adolf Hitler.
How can you make him a saint?
I don't understand.
He insisted that Hitler help the Franco government to save Christianity from communism.
He added, quote, Hitler against the Jews, Hitler against the Slavs, this means Hitler against communism.
And of course, you know, it's in the Illuminati cards, you know, the divide et impera, divide and conquer everything.
So when they accused him of being an anti-Semite in 1975, he said he professed his love for the Jewish people.
The Opus Dei was founded by somebody who, I repeat, was a Jesuit, but soon after the founding of the Order became himself a very powerful entity, an institution within the Catholic Church that grew very fast.
A clip from a documentary that came out last year from Deutsche Welle that I would like to put through to you and see what you think about, because I think that this documentary captures The most recent developments and give you also all the numbers of how it gives you a good idea of how the Opus Dei operates.
Of course, we will not broadcast the whole documentary, but a clip that will make you understand more about the secrets of the Opus Dei in this documentary by German state TV, Deutsche Welle.
Opus Dei is among the most powerful organizations within the Catholic Church.
Extremely well connected in the Vatican, endorsed by former popes, and feared by former members.
Obey or you're done!
I'd call it an authoritarian organization within the Catholic Church, even more authoritarian than the Church itself.
The head of Opus Dei in Germany rarely gives interviews, but he made an exception for this report.
He emphasized the group's Christian values.
The primary importance of Opus Dei lies in the wonderful message of how to live every day with love and mercy as a Christian.
Opus Dei founder José María Escrivá was revered as a saint during his lifetime.
He aligned himself with powerful people.
Especially in Spain.
The group's German branch also seeks close contact to politicians and church leaders such as Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, Cologne's controversial archbishop.
Traditionally media-shy, Opus Dei was forced into the spotlight by Dan Brown's bestseller The Da Vinci Code and the subsequent film.
The group was portrayed as bloodthirsty and ruthless.
But where is the line between myth and reality?
Is Opus Dei a Catholic cult that endangers members and a free society?
Or is the personal prelature nothing more than another pious institution fighting to keep an ever-decreasing number of believers in the fold?
Pamplona, the capital of the northern Spanish region of Navarre, the capital of the northern Spanish region of Navarre, This is where Opus Dei began its ascension.
The Catholic Church played a leading role in the lives of many in this rural region.
The ground here was fertile for a new devout group like Opus Dei.
In 1928, a young priest, José María Escrivá, is struck by what he calls "divine inspiration".
He founds Opus Dei, in English, Work of God.
His mission?
Christianize the world.
Things move slowly at first.
But the Spanish Civil War marks a turning point.
Opus Dei and Navarra politicians support General Francisco Franco.
After his victory, the General shows his appreciation.
As a token of gratitude, Navarre was permitted to maintain its own tax system.
Opus Dei benefited financially by siding with Franco, another reason why the group settled here.
When Escriba was asked why he'd chosen Navarre, he said it was God's plan, as if God had pointed his finger here.
The deal with the fascist leader Francisco Franco pays off for God's elites, as they call themselves.
Members of the group hold key economic and political positions.
They use their powerful roles to open Spain up to tourism and liberalize the economy.
In the early 1960s, a finance minister associated with Opus Dei becomes head of the Bank of Spain.
Government loans flow to companies tied to the group.
Spain's government and Opus Dei remain intertwined even now.
Education, justice and presumably banking are still under its influence.
How?
We turn to Ana Azanza, a philosophy lecturer and former long-time Opus Dei member.
Opus Dei has retained so much power because there was never a true break from the country's past, which would have been critical for our social progression.
It's like we put on a fresh coat of paint after Franco's death, but Spain's core foundation and structures remained intact.
No one was held accountable.
Young people today know next to nothing about the dictatorship.
The subject is taboo, and a lot of it is covered up.
No one is brave enough to self-reflect and analyze it.
It will likely go on like this for the next century.
Ana Azanza has insight into the inner workings of Opus Dei.
She was part of the group for 19 years, one of about 90,000 members globally.
Members in North and South America make up about a third of that total.
There are roughly 10,000 members in Africa, Asia, Australia and Oceania combined.
Spain is Opus Dei's strongest base, with about 35,000 members.
Another 4,000 are in Italy.
And in Germany, about 600 clergy and laypersons.
In 1945, Opus Dei starts expanding from Spain to Portugal and Italy, then to Germany, France and England.
It later establishes centers in North and South America.
Today, there are members in 90 countries, including Africa and Eastern Europe.
Opus Dei is structured around strict hierarchies.
Only men are allowed to join at first, though women are soon allowed too.
Prelate Fernando Ocares now heads the group.
About 2% of its members are priests.
About 10% are so-called numeraries, who live in Opus Dei centres, separated by gender and committed to celibacy.
They are supported by assistant numeraries, women who cook and clean in the facilities.
The largest group are the supernumeraries, who follow the values of Opus Dei, but are allowed to marry and lead private lives.
The German branch of Opus Dei is based in Cologne.
It's long been supported by the Archdiocese of Cologne, previously by Cardinal Joachim Meisner, then by his successor, Cardinal Woelki.
Not everyone approves of this close relationship.
This priest from the Archdiocese spoke.
And that is the Cardinal, I mean, that is basically the Cathedral of Cologne, which I know very well, I've been there, is the symbol of my family on the floor of that, of that cathedral, which my family helped constructing, by the way. which my family helped constructing, by the way.
So to see this opus Dei creeping in, so what are they?
Why are they so powerful?
Like many religious cults, the members at the bottom are sincere, probably, about the holiness of the people on top.
But you have this system where the numeraries, men and women, vow to celibacy, of course live in communal residencies.
And at times it creates also the possibility for some problems.
I mean, we had also a case, a scandal.
There is, of course, a priest.
Priests are limited to a minor percentage.
We said 2% of the whole organization, but they form a very powerful part of this organization because then The 4,000 priests of the Opus Dei form a priestly society of the Holy Cross, which in turn controls the numeraries, and that's where these priests come originally from.
So you have this specific priesthood also that Jose Maria Escriva founded after founding the Opus Dei, which is mainly directed to the laity, to the people who are not the clergy.
But he wanted to follow up his mission also in the clergy.
The thing is that there is a lot of power in this organization.
There is, at least at the moment, two or even three members of the Supreme Court, Supreme Court Justices.
Antonin Scalia used to be also a member of the Opus Dei.
Samuel Alito, who is currently a member, is a member of the Opus Dei.
Clarence Thomas.
He's awesome.
He's scandalous.
He's scandalous, but he's also... because the other thing about the Obus Dei, there is a lot of hypocrisy about also their practices.
You know, as long as they go to confession, they can get on and sin as much as they want, it seems.
Are they like the Jesuits?
Well, they come from... For example, if you hear the testimony the typical testimony of a member of the order, then maybe you can understand more, apart from, of course, the whole history and the corporal mortification, which is also part of the whole thing.
...personal links to the Franco regime and lies that should disqualify him from sainthood.
The fact that he also had these links with the Castro regime should have definitely disqualified him from sainthood.
...sainthood.
...sainthood. - It's a slander on the memory of the founder, says the rector, who speaks with some personal novel.
Yeah, well, there is a slander on the memory of the founder and what not.
I mean, it's like very convenient, of course, to then say that it's all a slander on the memory of the founder, when in reality there is an organisation here that definitely Well, it's very strange indeed in all their practices, I guess, in all their ways.
Going back to... There I am!
Here is Christy.
I was hiding.
She was hiding.
So, we have all these powerful members.
It's quite interesting that at the moment Chief Justice urged to make Alita and Thomas step aside in megadonor cases.
This is and both of them are Opus Dei members.
This is information just from a couple of days ago just to make you understand how we try here in The work that we do for the Exploring the Illuminati also to keep an eye on what is going on currently also with Opus Dei and definitely the Opus Dei faction has also in a way and at times helped the Conservative faction but
We need to beware of them, definitely.
So you see here, these two are members of the Oboe's Day, this is an article from yesterday, and basically they are calling upon these people to step aside after ethics scandals.
So how is it possible that these two illustrious members of the Oboe's Day are involved in ethics scandals?
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Like I was saying, the Opus Dei is a very powerful organization also when it comes down to the bank.
I mean, the Banco Santander that they control is one of the biggest, largest banks in the world.
It's basically the largest bank in the Eurozone.
So it's not like just a normal bank.
They control one of the most powerful banks in the world.
And I remember when I met in this Lodge meeting, For the first time, Carlo Maria Bazzerga was introduced to me by a guy from the P2 who used to work with Monsignor Marcinkus, and he said that this is the guy who has the keys for the Vatican Fortress, kind of thing, for the Vatican, you know.
It was just like, they really... Is that where all the jewels are?
Is that where all the treasure is?
Is that where they keep the secrets?
It was symbolic to all the money, I guess.
If you think that, you know, Ratzinger was definitely a supporter of Opus Dei, because he followed on the work that was laid down by John Paul II.
But then, you know, people imagine that when the Jesuit Jorge Mario Bergoglio arrived, elevated himself as the head of the church, things would change for Opus Dei.
Absolutely not!
Three cardinals emerged since his election from the Opus Dei as the most powerful in this papacy and including Cardinal Pell, the now-defunct Cardinal Pell, who was Opus Dei.
They're all just a bunch of, you know, what?
All a bunch of crooks.
I would say that... Is anybody sincere ever?
I would say that one of the books that discuss better the inside The wrongdoings or the reality of the Opus Dei is a book called The Kingdom Come by Robert Hutchinson that came out in 1997.
He's a Canadian financial journalist and he traces the growth of Opus Dei financial power by all available means.
So they use deception, Trickery of all sorts.
Even physical muscle poisoning, which mimics heart attacks.
I mean, Opus Dei didn't stop at anything.
And then they created also a very influential branch in all the various universities and high schools.
Opus Dei is significantly connected to 479 universities and high schools.
Opus Dei has some of the most important heads of the FBI and CIA are Opus Dei.
It's basically a very powerful organization.
Opus Dei Flagship University, where all the elite of Spain goes, is in Navarre, Spain.
And also Pamplona donated the big, huge, enormous land to them, and they built this very exclusive university.
So they are aiming to really control.
It's not just about preaching the gospel.
Actually, it's not at all about preaching the gospel.
Yes, please.
What's more powerful, Scientology or Opus Dei?
I would say that because of the fact that they are within the Catholic Church, we can say that of course.
There is a connection, you know, that, of course, it's part, it's a part of the Church, so, you know, the Church, the Catholic Church, is very influential compared to Scientology.
However, there is also links between Scientology and Opus Dei, or between, there is being registered links that, I mean, people like, for example, Tom Cruise, when he got married with that lady, Katie Holmes, he got married in two ceremonies and one was in Italy also, one in a church, one without a church.
OK, so there is always some links between these people.
I mean, they're very powerful.
And we said it's a lot about the money.
The Opus Dei, Purchase the Vatican Agenda through the presence of its members in secular governments and institutions.
They are influential people.
They encourage, you know, they have a vast array of... Most of the people are not numeraries, so people who are celibate, they're super numeraries, who are not obliged to follow the celibacy.
So, you have people present in civil institutions of power, and this has supported the growth of the organization as a whole.
They work very much in the public sphere.
I will say another book that I would suggest, because, you know, we always suggest books during our shows, we like to do that here, The Leo Zagami Show, The Pope's Armada, Unlocking the Secrets of Mysterious, Powerful, and New Sex in the Church, by Gordon Harworth.
This is another interesting book that you can read more about the Opus Dei.
Because we need today to, of course, distance ourselves from the mere speculations.
But they are in the CIA and the FBI members of the Opus Dei.
This is not a speculation.
What about in the White House?
Probably.
Probably.
So they're all a bunch of Democrats then.
No, because you see, the thing is this, and this is a little bit sad to say because, you know, it involves the conservative movement.
Now, let's talk about Steve Bannon.
Steve Bannon, this guy, at one point, he kind of entered in an alliance that involved also Cardinal Burke.
I think that it will be interesting for people who are following us Welcome to The Real News Network.
I'm Paul Jay.
back then, because this also involves a lot of the heavy censorship which I myself am subject because of Opus Dei.
PAUL JAY: Welcome to The Real News Network.
I'm Paul Jay.
In 2014, Steve Bannon, chief strategist to President Donald Trump, gave a talk to a group that was meeting in the Vatican, the Human Dignity Institute.
He spoke about his vision of capitalism and the future.
Well, who is the Human Dignity Institute?
Well, at least the chair of their board of advisors is Cardinal Raymond Burke.
Cardinal Raymond Burke, as you may know from previous stories we've done on The Real News, So, you see, the thing is that part of the Opus Dei in theory should be on our side.
Yeah, seems like it.
In theory.
within the church allied with the very right-wing organization Opus Dei that is fighting Pope Francis and more or less despises the direction that Francis has been taking the church.
So, you see, the thing is that part of the Opus Dei in theory should be on our side.
Yeah, seems like it.
In theory, but in practice, because there's a lot of compromises here.
Now, Church Militant, for example, Church Militant also is said to be very close to the Opus Dei.
So, Steve Bannon, Cardinal Burke, these people at times seem to be doing good things, but then Steve Bannon, guys, is a guy that I completely distrust.
For a number of reasons that I will not be able to link here.
We will be going out of subject here.
But I think it is very important to understand who these people are who have stopped and censored Leo Zegami in his own work.
Because today, those alternative media outlets who don't give a voice to Leo Zegami, They are colluding with Opus Dei.
You know who you are.
You continue.
You will fall down with them.
Now, I know that, of course, this is an accusation that some people will understand.
Some others will not.
But it's important for me to make the people who are following us today understand.
There is a saying in Naples, canes unifis.
Here, nobody is an idiot.
OK, so don't think that Leo Zagami doesn't know what you're up to.
If Leo Zagami and the Leo Zagami Show is not moving forward, it's also because of Opus Dei.
And this is what John Paul II said of Opus Dei.
So let's also see.
That's why I'm going to put also leave the space so the subtitles can come up.
Let's see here.
Somebody said they own both sides, but of course they always seem to own both sides.
Okay, so let's see here what John Paul II said of Opus Dei.
*Piano music* "Shiate i benvenuti, voi siete qui
In the presence of the components in which the prelature is organically structured, that is, of the priests and of the faithful, men and women, with their own prelate at the head.
This hierarchical nature of the Opus Dei, established in the Apostolic Constitution with which I have created the Proclamation, offers the basis for pastoral considerations rich in practical applications.
and practical applications.
First of all, I want to emphasize that the belonging of the Jewish faiths, both to their particular church, and to the prelature, and to the prelature,
So that the peculiar mission of the prelature may be built on the commitment of the evangelizer of each particular Church, as foreseen by the Vatican Council II in the auspices of the figure of the personal prelatures.
You can all notice that John Paul II was not very well.
You can all notice that John Paul II was not very well.
It was 2001.
It was, you know, the year before he actually canonized, you say, Maria Escriva, but he had to paint this really nice picture of who the Opus Dei are, no?
And how they needed to reveal themselves to the world.
Here we are.
The world's greatest human being, the highest quality of their own beauty.
And their own apostolic friendship, fraternity friendship, and solidity, will make sure that they know to bring the social relationships and social relationships will make sure that they know to bring the social
in occasion to protest in the same way for the truth that is the first condition for the spiritual encounter with Christ.
And a lot of applause and so on.
But actually, guys, it was because of John Paul II and Ratzinger that George W. Bush did the second term and not John Kerry.
John Kerry didn't win because apparently John Paul II and Ratzinger supported George W. Bush.
This is also very important.
Maybe a lot of people don't know this.
I mean, the organization, the Opus Dei, is a very influential organization.
They control, they are some of the most high-ranking commanders of our military.
The investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, which we all know is kind of Well, I mean, the group responsible for the official assassination of Osama Bin Laden.
that General Stanley McChrystal, Vice Admiral William McRaven, and others in the Joint Special Operation Command, the group responsible, some say, well, I mean, the group responsible for the official assassination of Osama bin Laden.
And we don't know if they really killed him at that time or if he was just put on a freezer and then took out a few years later.
In any case, there is members also of the Knights of Malta, In fact, Leo Reimann-Burke, who made that pact for a brief period with Bannon, was until this year patron of the Knights of Malta, of the Sovereign Military Order of the Knights of Malta.
So, here we have a lot of interesting things that need to be exposed about the Opus Dei.
The New York Times noted in 2012 that an Opus Dei boy prep school has become the popular school for a small clip of Washingtonians, very elite people, lobbyists and former US Senator also Rick Santorum.
Involved with the Opus Dei, Mel Martinez, defense Chuck Hagel, the infamous FBI spy and Opus Dei member Robert Hansen, former FBI director Louis J. Freach.
There is so many guys.
The Opus Dei is a very powerful organization.
I know that Newt Gingrich, he said some good things.
The other day he said, actually a good thing, he said that it's pointless to have these primaries, they should just be Donald J. Trump as a candidate at this point.
But he's also a member of the Opus Dei.
So, we find here... Donald isn't, is he?
No.
No.
You see, that friction with Bannon, at one point he had to live between Bannon and his son-in-law.
And then in the end, this friction got Bannon out.
And now everybody thought that the son-in-law, what's his name?
Jared.
He's a bad guy and all that.
But guys, here, you know, I mean, who is the bad guy really?
Because it seems like they're all a bunch of mobsters and they all have some hidden agendas.
So, There is also the Knights of Columbus, for example, that have a very powerful organization, but they're not comparable to the influence of the Opus Dei in the Vatican, because their influence was... I mean, look what happened with Cardinal Pell.
The guy got arrested, and in the end, he came back.
He came back!
He came back!
Cardinal Pell, before dying, came back to the Vatican.
He went straight to the bank, right?
Yeah!
So this gives you an idea of how powerful these people are.
I mean, Cardinal Pell died basically this year, in January of this year, at the beginning of this year, but he was arrested, put in a prison.
They took him out of there.
Basically, the whole accusations, everything was dismissed.
And what about the victims?
These people don't care about the victims.
I mean, you're talking about the August Day!
Then why did they do all of that hoopla, you know, and trials, and making everybody excited?
Okay, I tell you one thing.
I think that the pyramid that Deutsche Welle showed is very important, because we understand that the people below, they are the ones who genuinely believe in all this.
You know, in all these prayers and give the real power to the egregore, that then they, of course, the people on top who do all those crookeries, I mean, taking control of the economy or the banking system is not something that is profoundly Christian.
Actually, it doesn't have anything to do with Christianity.
Now, Pell invited, of course, they to establish themselves in Melbourne.
After he became Archbishop.
Under Pell's patronage, Opus Dei's star really went on the rise.
So he made a lot of money for the Opus Dei.
He was untouchable.
When they arrested him, they knew that they couldn't keep him in prison for much longer.
He was so powerful.
I mean, it was impossible.
So Cardinal Pell won.
I mean, of course.
Now he's kicking rocks in hell, so whatever.
Well, of course, everybody sooner or later has to meet their creator.
But Pell has had, for Bergoglio, sound experience in business.
He was somebody he can trust, he could trust.
You know, the Archidiocese's assets have nearly doubled since 2004 to 2013 to over a billion.
Since Pell became Archbishop in 2001, the Archdiocese of Sydney basically became very rich.
At the same time, they had to pay out, of course, the 6.8 million settlement for sex abuse.
Basically, they just gave out money to silence the victims and then continue.
Continue.
And it is definitely Terrible that all this is happening and that people can call a saint a man who was not a saint.
Cardinal Pell, his case was basically dismissed and he was let back into the fold and back in Rome with all the honors.
As regards to clerical abuse, Pell said that the church has been a victim of smears.
Usually that's what they say, no?
It's always, you know, they feel like they're victims of smears when of course they're not the victims, they are the perpetrators.
They hurt children.
Now we know what happened also with the Legion of Christ of Massiel, their God, whatever his name was, who was also another guy, very dubious guy.
And many other dubious people managed to establish themselves during the reign of John Paul II, especially in his, you know, because then after he was shot, he became more and more frail and more and more weak.
I guess also.
So you're following, of course, Leo Zagami and Christy here today for an exploration into the secrets of the Opus Dei, which is a very powerful organization and controls also large part of the banking systems.
The Deutsche Bank, for example, Germany's central bank, is very much connected to the Opus Dei.
So, you know, this is another thing.
I mean, the connections are not only the Sander Bank, the group from Spain.
I mean, the banking system, then the whole banking system of Europe, Started to, like tentacles, you know, get everywhere and anywhere.
So, I think that it's important that people understand that their influence in Latin America, they are very influenced.
They have, I mean, they have basically the banks of Mexico, all the banking system in Mexico is in the hands of the Oval State.
Really?
Yeah, I mean, the OASD controls Central and South America, vast oil reserves in Mexico, Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Guatemala, Cuba, whatever.
They have a lot of Money, a lot of money, a lot of power.
And I think that really makes them think of times that they can get away with murder and get away with murder.
And they really get away with murder.
It's not, you know, it's not the... We have Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley, another guy who is a very big supporter of the August Day.
I think that The fact that the Jesuit general himself said, this is Christian masonry.
This is like Freemasonry.
This is like a new cancer that has entered the Catholic Church.
And unfortunately, it's not something that is going to go away.
Opus Dei has been in Tokyo, Japan since 1958.
Why are they in Japan?
You know, when I, you know, I mean, this is something that probably we never discussed here on the show, but Cristi knows very well.
I published six books in Japan and then I got dropped.
Oh my gosh, that was Opus Dei!
That was Opus Dei!
I was just looking at those pictures because it's like the anniversary of all of that.
Yeah, but it was also that I was starting to write about Opus Dei in Japan in my book.
Oh my God, and we got... Man, they just censor you left and right.
Of course.
So, you know, it's like Opus Dei has been... and then the work of the Opus Dei also is in South Korea and Vietnam.
They are very popular also there.
And they have controversy.
They have controversy all the way.
I'm not saying there is no controversy because they are filled with controversy.
We can check out a second here.
So their presence...
They really don't like you.
They really don't like Leo Zagami.
So why?
They don't like Leo Zagami because I exposed them more than once.
I think that they never forgive the fact that I exposed their headquarters in Bologna, Villa Leona, back in the days when I was in the Monte Carlo lodge.
Probably that was something they never really digested fully.
The fact that with Carlo Maria Baserga, this whole thing, and in fact they really I think they really didn't like that.
Here, Catholic group, dodged by controversy, seeks salvation through science.
Oh, perfect.
And it says, University Hospice seen an attempt by Opus Dei to dispel myths and fears.
This is an article from 2008 and it talks about basically this on the outskirts of Rome, away from its ancient splendors and having Piazza lies a gleaming new science facility dedicated to discovery, education and research.
Set in 38 hectares, the biomedical university campus compromising a teaching hospital and university.
At the helm of this mission is Opus Dei.
A global network of devout Catholics.
Let's all be Catholics.
The thing is, I exposed a lot.
And I will continue to expose a lot.
But we need your support because, guys, absolutely, without your support, we will not be able to carry on in our mission.
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Thanks to your help, we are able to carry on with the creation of a show a week, which is a very exciting.
It's like, you know, there's a lot of work in putting together this kind of show because I'm trying to summarize everything and expose things that you don't know about.
So it's like writing a book each week for me, you know, almost.
But I'm satisfied because I think that since the beginning of the year, You taught a lot of people a lot of stuff.
We taught a lot of things.
A lot of things.
Absolutely.
A lot of things.
I'm sure everybody really appreciates all these lessons that you give every week.
Well, I'm glad that there is people who appreciate them.
And I want to go back to the corporal mortification.
It's very important to understand also the corporal mortification element here.
Why do they do that?
Why do they have to hurt themselves?
Corporal mortification happens because they're not happy with their sins.
It's all about punishing the fact that we are... I have some considerations to do here.
Though the mortification in Catholic theology is present since the very Let's see, very early days, we can say that there has been saints that received also stigmata, like Saint Francis of Assisi, then we have Padre Pio, this is a foremost of... Okay, I don't understand something.
But then we had, you know, Saint Ignatius of Loyola, which is the founder of the Jesuits, which in 1522 is known to have practiced severe mortifications to himself.
You know, But the Bible says that the body is your temple, and so, you know, like, your body is your temple, and so, you know, take care of it, and it's a reflection of God, so why would we want to, like, cut or hurt ourself, or... I don't think God likes that.
Okay, there is a saint, a saint which is very popular in Spain, it's one of the doctors of the church, Spanish mystic, Teresa of Avila, she undertook so much of this severe mortification, And once it was suggested by friends that their supernatural exes were, of course, of diabolical origin because it was so, so much, you know?
So then she continued until Francis Borgia, a Jesuit, who was the great grandson of the Pope, Borgia, reassured And at that point, because she said she believed that she was goaded by angels and had a passion to conform her life to the sufferings of Jesus.
It's all about equiparating yourself to the sufferings of Jesus.
That's why the mortification.
Jesus suffered, and so they want to suffer also.
So Jose Maria Escriva practiced self-flagellation and used the cleese, which is a modern-day version of the hay shirt.
Now, the hay shirt, I want to show, of course, I'm showing already what it is, but I want to describe it.
What is this?
It's something you put on, but it's extremely uncomfortable.
Originally, it's called, in this way, it's called basically a hair shirt.
Sorry, hair shirt.
Because it was built with hair.
Gross!
I know, but then after, Later on, it will be made with... Is the hair supposed to make you feel terrible?
Yeah, just like... and then camel hair, for example, was used.
Camel hair.
Because John the Baptist had this thing, garment of camel hair, which means that he was using the hair shaft.
And then you have the chain silice that I'm going to show you now, which is the one that we saw in the Da Vinci code, which is basically the metal thing that you put down here and you turn around.
And now a lot of people, I don't know if you can see it here.
It doesn't seem like we can see it, but in any case, Let me see.
Here we have still the same.
Let me take it off.
I want to show more of this testimony regarding this whole Opus Dei world Not the whole thing, but I'm picking up on certain parts of it which I regard as interesting, because I think they can be complementary to what we're discussing today.
These testimonies of these people that, of course, can tell us more about the Opus Dei, not only in a specific country, but worldwide, because the Opus Dei has been operating worldwide and is, of course, extremely influential and secretive.
The newspaper El Público quoted him as saying one-third of all Spanish judges and prosecutors are linked to Opus Dei.
Opus Dei also appears to draw significant financial support from Spain's educational system.
According to El País, a leading Spanish newspaper, in 2020, investment in state-supported private schools — the majority of which are religious — increased by 7 percent, while investment in the public school system was cut by 5 percent.
Opus Dei's network of private schools also includes the IESE Business School in Barcelona.
The Financial Times has ranked the school's MBA program among the best globally.
An IESE campus was opened in Munich in 2015.
Students don't have to be Catholic to study there, but they do have to be able to pay the hefty tuition — more than 70,000 euros for the two-year program.
We wanted to ask the head of the business school in Munich whether graduates are expected to do favours for Opus Dei later in their careers.
But our interview request was denied.
We were told our questions made little sense.
Back to Spain, in the southeastern part of the country, to Murcia.
We meet a woman who tells us a shocking story about the way her father's death unfolded.
My father was an Opus Dei member, as was my late mother, and my brother Fernando is an Opus Dei priest.
One day my brother told my father, you will die in four days.
My father was really shocked.
He told everyone.
He did have lung cancer, but it wasn't in the final stages.
His doctors had told him that he had several more months to live, and he was active, meeting friends for coffee.
But he died exactly four days later, under very strange circumstances.
According to Josefina Hurtado, a doctor from Opus Dei was in and out of her father's apartment.
He sounded sedated on the phone and eventually stopped picking up.
Josefina was working as a doctor in England at the time.
Her father died on May 17, 2015, before she could return to Spain.
Ascension Day and the anniversary of the beatification of Opus Dei founder Escribar.
What a coincidence!
Then, at his funeral, other Opus Dei members said it was such a blessing from heaven that St.
Josemaría Escrivá was his mediator to God.
People even called to congratulate me.
It was truly absurd.
But it opened my eyes.
She grew suspicious her priest brother played a role in her father's death.
She reported him and possible accomplices.
The toxicology report revealed her father was administered sedatives.
His heart medication was stopped and he wasn't drinking enough fluids.
Was his death really planned?
We obtained a document from Opus Dei founder Escrivar that was leaked to the court.
It stated, in part, When your hour comes, a priest will take care of you.
You should confess everything to him so he can prepare you for God's embrace.
So this is euthanasia.
This is Euthanasia organized so then they can grasp, of course, all the money, the inheritance.
They're a bunch of greedy mofos!
Now, I will be telling you as soon as this clip ends, the story of me and Christy and the Opus Dei back Over 10 years ago, with the Marquis Roberto Caldirola.
It is an incredible story, guys, because there was this vice head of the police, also in Rome involved, who had basically given money so then the mother of the wife could become a saint.
Can I show you with the nuns?
Yeah, actually you have some images there.
Check out.
Oh, I just, first I wanted to show you, these are on my Facebook.
Yeah, this is back in the days when the Opus Dei basically contacted me and when I brought in Italy Princess Kaoru Nakamaru, the Opus Dei of course surfaced.
Look at him with all those nuns!
And then they have a lot of other pics of all those, because what happened was that I assisted really to these incredible testimonies of corruption within the Vatican.
That's Princess Cora.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, when she was with the Bishop, yes, with the Bishop Sigaliwi.
Is that the one that fell off the mountain?
Well, he was thrown off the mountain.
Was he the one that got thrown off the mountain?
Yes, yes.
See, we were going to this dinner, and on the way, this guy, he got, this bishop got, what happened?
Somebody ran him off the road, and he flew off of the cliff, and then he went in the hospital.
They throw him off the cliff.
They throw him off the cliff.
And it was probably August Day, but let's go forward with this video.
Then, a doctor will then go and get an injection.
Is Opus Dei playing God? .
A grave accusation which a spokesman denies.
Some things are so ludicrous they don't even warrant a response.
I've never seen nor heard of such a document.
Nobody can know anything about it because it doesn't exist.
The real question here is, who made it up?
It's unfortunate.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Who made it up?
See that one right there?
There I am.
Yeah, that was...
That guy right there.
That guy, right.
That was almost there.
That red, gray-haired guy.
He was almost there.
He was buying me so much.
He was trying to make me drink so much wine.
He kept filling up my glass, but...
So, in any case, what happened was, a few days later, I went on my own there to dinner with Calderola, with those two Opus Dei members, and with Varro Venturi, with his film director.
Now this film director basically during the period of Christmas had lost his car license because he drove drunk.
You remember?
He was drunk, he was stoned, he was stopped by the police and they took his car license.
car license now I say okay and what happened next was that baro and to be was so desperate that he wanted to get to meet somebody and because he was a descendant of more than a pope from an aristocracy family we all went to this dinner with the Roberto Caldillo
Roberto Caldirola brought the vice head of the police, who could give him the possibility of driving again.
But it was all about corruption.
There was money involved.
And in the same moment, I had the most crazy feelings about sainthood.
Basically, these people buy the sainthood.
Why?
If, you know, they buy the saint, you know, they give millions, they give palaces to the Catholic Church and they say, oh, you know, I had this old aunt who basically was always praying and, yeah, can we bring her to sainthood or to become at least a beata because there's various stages before you become a saint.
So, It is really incredible, the corruption.
Of course, we are trying here to explain you all this.
It's not the Da Vinci Code.
This is the reality of Opus Dei.
We said, basically, there is a lot of controversy surrounding this organization.
Controversies also regarding Some of their members who abused, abused other numeraries, abused, sexual misconduct.
And what did they do?
They simply paid off.
They simply paid off almost a million dollars to settle the sexual claim misconduct of a prominent Opus Dei member.
This is the article here.
Welcome to the Leo Zegami Show!
Leo and Cristi Zegami.
Today we are discussing the Opus Dei and we are doing it without any censorship.
We are doing it thanks to your, your, because you are the one who has made this possible.
I'm trying to see if I can get this image from the Washington Post, but I think you have to probably... Oh, that's very hard to get.
Let me see, because I think you have to pay, but in any case, the image was this, but it's a little bit difficult.
But what happened was that just so, you know, the Opus Dei paid this enormous settlement and the other one was that it was the Opus Dei paid this enormous settlement and the other one was that it was a very good
place to go to the top of Man, they always say, Is the obvious day messing with my microphone?
Guys, this is insane!
However, let's go to the article from leozegami.com from early 2019.
I think that I'm no longer muted because I should be back, you know?
You lost the volume.
Now I'm back.
You can hear me?
Okay, now you can hear me.
Perfect.
This was a little bit weird that suddenly I'm having a bunch of technical problems.
Why is that, Christy?
Why do you think?
I don't know.
Maybe the computer is getting hot.
It's weird, eh?
It's a little bit weird.
This is an article that you're seeing from early 2019 which I wrote on this A scandal that erupted within the Opus Dei.
It was the 9th of January.
I was still living in Italy.
Massive scandal erupts for Opus Dei VIP priest.
And the influential Catholic Opus Dei feared in the Da Vinci Co.
announced on Monday they paid almost $1 million to silence a woman who said she was molested by VIP priest John McCloskey.
What a bunch of crap.
The obvious day is often described in the media as a cult-like.
The true personal freedom of numeric members who make 25 to 30% of members are hindered by methods that resemble those used by cults.
The sex scandal is probably only the tip of the iceberg for the secretive and list this cult founded in 1928 by Jose Maria Escriva.
I think this world needs a flood.
This world needs a flood.
We need a flood because it's just too corrupt.
It's very good.
I'm going to get Rambo.
Okay.
We are basically about to arrive to the end of this.
Another thing that I want to just warn people because people, you know, need to be warned.
The typical technique which is used to get people to join the Opus Dei is lab bombing.
What?
Lab bombing.
is typical of sex.
The special love bombing was coined by members of the Unification Church of the United States during the 1970s, and it is basically, you know, a way, you know, they give the person demonstration of attention, of affection, maybe the person is a lonely person, They intensify this love bombing until, you know, the guys comes.
When it comes to the Opus Dei, initially, the person that connects with you will not even say they are Opus Dei.
They don't say it.
They completely disguise the Opus Dei side of things.
So it's very difficult also for a person knowing if you are in the Catholic Church and you suddenly get these people showing affection, inviting you to do things in secret.
Everything has to be secret because it's all about secrecy also in the Opus Dei.
So I think that it's very important that we have analyzed the Opus Dei because it is a sect.
It is not the real Catholic Church.
Sadly, the Catholic Church is no longer what it used to be after the Second Vatican Council.
This is, you know, I mean, I've been writing over and over again about it.
The Opus Dei is a social religious phenomenon.
Bound up with the political situation following the Spanish Civil War.
But then it became a reality that expanded.
And, you know, by the end of the war, of course, and then after with Francisco Franco dictatorship, they expanded their influence.
America, of course, supported them.
They stayed behind Operation Gladio.
The P2 was always linked to the Opus Dei through a person called Giulio Andreotti, who was actually the real head of the P2, not Licia Gelli.
So in reality, the P2 was controlled by the Opus Dei.
You understand?
People talk about Freemasonry, and of course they should talk about Freemasonry, because Freemasonry these days is completely hijacked and controlled.
But the real people behind the scenes are the Opus Dei who have, you know, Freemasonry, of course, but then you have the Opus Dei.
And these people, guys, these people don't stop in front of anything, trust me.
Maybe they will in front of God.
Yep.
So he's talking about the fact that José María Escrivá thought that Franco, Francisco Franco, the dictator, was a good Christian.
You know, he's justifying it.
This is why the Opus day is into this flagellation.
...crashing about in the Opus day closet. Every Easter, Catholic Spain bears witness to this ritual parade of self-flagellation to emulate Christ's suffering and purge sinful thoughts.
While these spectacles are largely symbolic, Opus Dei takes a more literal approach, encouraging members to engage in such practices in private, along with the wearing of spiked thigh belts designed to pierce the flesh.
The issue of Opus Dei members engaging in flagellation, mortification of the flesh, It's true, but it's not so tragic.
The mortification of the flesh is a fashion in the Church from the first centuries to now.
Was it expected of the Opus Dei members to self-flagellate, to engage in mortification?
On Saturdays.
On Saturdays.
It was terrible, no?
Is it something that you do?
Do you engage in that practice?
Yes, yes, of course.
It's no shame.
I don't like to speak about that, because of my privacy, and I'm shy in this term.
But I can't deny, I live the mortification of the flesh.
It is necessary to search the holiness.
It's incalculable what you can do.
It's a rare public admission, linking such practices to the movement's core goal of achieving sanctity in everyday life.
But mortification of the flesh isn't the only ritual that mortifies some other Catholics.
The women, they don't sleep in beds, the women.
They sleep in wood.
Because the scribats say the women are sexier than men.
Funny, funny extrapolation.
He was an expert in the psychology of sex.
So women sleep on what?
On planks?
On planks, yeah.
But again, what is the logic of that?
No logic.
I mean, torture.
That's why there are many problems, many psychotic problems, mental problems in Opus Dei.
I know more than three people who Alberto Moncada accuses Opus Dei of hypocrisy, of inflicting an impossibly austere lifestyle on the rank and file.
in Spain who was a specialist in Opus Dei members.
Alberto Moncada accuses Opus Dei of hypocrisy, of inflicting an impossibly austere lifestyle on the rank and file.
While for the leadership, apparently anything goes.
When you are important, you are an important person, I think you are entitled to almost everything.
When I was in Peru and was very tired of talking to Opus Dei about impossible things they wanted me to do as a rector, I went to a nice hotel in Lima to have a good time with a lady.
No problem.
I just came back, confessed, and everything was okay.
Well, the hypocrisy of Opus Dei is one for the ages.
I think that today we really managed to encapsulate the reality of Opus Dei, thanks to these clips, thanks to all the information that I, of course, brought you in this special show, Exploring the Illuminati, which reached part 35 today.
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And I think that there is no need for mortification of the flesh.
And of course, the Shiites also, within the Muslim religion, also seem to follow the same kind of... There is this need.
But remember, the fact that you mortify the flesh, that you think that this body is evil, is also a little bit like the Gnostics that thought everything was evil.
So it is a little bit outside of the traditional canons of Christianity.
Okay, guys, we might have to discuss more this subject one day.
In any case, thank you for following us.
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It's also Christy's book, Confessions of an Illuminati Princess, Volume 1 and Volume 2.