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Opus Dei: not a sorrowful mystery.
MYSTERIOUS and secretive have been the Australian media's qualifiers of choice for Opus Dei since the Catholic lay order's hand was purportedly detected manipulating a leadership change in the New South Wales Liberal Party in September. In fact, the alleged master choreographer and Opus Dei operative turned out not to be the choreographer and only married to an Opus Dei member. I think it likely that it was the suspect's Opus Dei connection which prompted I the finger pointing. That nobody seems to have ventured beyond mysterious and secretive in inferring sinister forces at work is possibly due to fear of being unmasked as a reader of The Da Vinci Code.
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- Opus Dei and The Da Vinci Code: Jesuit sees novel as 'junk...
- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter Zaray, Nicole September 10, 2004 700+ words
...the fiction behind Opus Dei's nefarious role in The Da Vinci Code. NCR: How much did you know about Opus Dei before writing your...problem with The Da Vinci Code is that it basically...suspicions about Opus Dei and spins them into...
- Opus Dei in the Da Vinci Code.(Opinion & Editorial)
- Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin April 28, 2006 700+ words
...author of 'The Da Vinci Code' never visited a center of Opus Dei and, as far as I...The picture of Opus Dei presented in the...readers of 'The Da Vinci Code' who have no first-hand knowledge of Opus Dei to understand that...
- 'Opus Dei' doc takes 'Code' cue., .('Decoding Opus Dei', 'The Da Vinci...
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Dempsey, John July 18, 2005 700+ words
...release of "The Da Vinci Code" is a two-hour...work called "Decoding Opus Dei." Opus Dei, a worldwide Catholic...Brown, author of "Da Vinci Code," used the real group...created a fictional Opus Dei monk who commits multiple...
- The Mysteries of Opus Dei.(The Da Vinci Code)
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Boser, Ulrich December 22, 2003 700+ words
...opening scenes of The Da Vinci Code are pure potboiler. On orders from Opus Dei, an assassin pumps a bullet...but the truth behind Opus Dei is just as enthralling...flagellation have made Opus Dei the Roman Catholic Church...
- Opus Dei urges Da Vinci Code changes.
- Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) February 15, 2006 700+ words
...CONSERVATIVE Catholic group Opus Dei has said it will not...the forthcoming The Da Vinci Code film. But group leaders...released yesterday in Rome, Opus Dei said Sony Pictures had...novel which portrayed Opus Dei as a murderous, power...
- We Love Telly: DOCUMENTARY: OPUS DEI AND THE DA VINCI CODE C4, 8pm.(Features)
- Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England) December 12, 2005 700+ words
...TODAY'S TV by Jane Simon FOR Opus Dei, all publicity is good publicity...Now, thanks to Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code, which portrayed it as dangerous...Dowd, right, meets some members of Opus Dei in London, New York and Rome and...
- Catholic group tries to explain itself: Normally low-profile Opus Dei rebuts...
- Newspaper article from: Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD) May 14, 2006 700+ words
...the supposed Opus Dei monk who cuts...through The Da Vinci Code, has drawn protests...knew people in Opus Dei, then the portrayal in The Da Vinci Code would obviously...But if The Da Vinci Code has spurred Opus Dei to new openness...
- End notes: Opus Dei seeks 'R' rating for Da Vinci Code.(IN CATHOLIC...
- Magazine article from: Conscience June 22, 2006 700+ words
...Catholic organization Opus Dei has called for the forthcoming...fictional novel, "The Da Vinci Code," to be given an adult...they had children. An Opus Dei spokesman told the news...The Vatican shares Opus Dei's circumspection...
