Welcome to the r/OpusDeiExposed Toolbox.

My intention is to equip you with a variety of resources so that you can formulate your own opinions and perspectives of Opus Dei. This toolbox is updated from time to time. If something is missing, please send a request for an addition via modmail.

-The History of Opus Dei-

  1. Historical Overview- Opus Dei: https://opusdei.org/en/article/historical-overview/ 
  2. History and Activities- Opus Dei: https://opusdei.org/en/article/historical-overview/ 
  3. Timeline of Opus Dei: https://www.isje.org/en/history-of-opus-dei/ 
  4. History and Controversies- abbreviated: https://www.isje.org/en/history-of-opus-dei/ 
  5. Controversies- according to Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_Opus_Dei

-Opus Dei and Vatican-

  1. “To the Members of Opus Dei; this is the Situation” (OpusLibros): https://www.opuslibros.org/nuevaweb/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=28686 
  2. Unofficial English translation of the ‘Carta Explicativa’: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MkbZe0rxRxxTFqhrHAIodM0-4EWkS2MW/view?usp=sharing 
  3. The ‘Carta Explicativa”, written by a former member of the Work, intended to mimic the language and attitude those within and without Opus Dei hope to see the organization adopt: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tDwpoK_50tr9H_mV-uoWYmUkPHGo414Q/view?usp=sharing 
  4. Spain’s Church Seeks to Add Credence to Enquiry of Alleged Child Abuse: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/spains-church-seeks-add-credence-enquiry-alleged-child-abuse-2022-02-22/ 
  5. Spanish Bishops Say They Won’t Participate in National Clerical Abuse Inquiry: https://cruxnow.com/church-in-europe/2022/04/spanish-bishops-say-they-wont-participate-in-national-clerical-abuse-inquiry 
  6. The Pope Made Reforms that do not Satisfy and Blur Opus Dei: https://www.lacapital.com.ar/informacion-general/el-papa-hizo-reformas-que-no-satisfacen-y-desdibujan-al-opus-dei-n10012639.html 
  7. Philippine Bishops Rebuked Over Pastoral Letter: https://www.heraldmalaysia.com/news/philippine-bishops-rebuked-over-pastoral-letter/64564/1 

-Opus Dei and Politics-

  1. The Court of God: How a Catholic Secret Society Took Over SCOTUS: https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-court-of-god-how-a-catholic-secret-society-took-over-scotus/271612/ 
  2. The Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court and Their Faith: https://www.mgr.org/OpusDeiInUSGovernment.html 
  3. Opus Dei’s Influence is Felt in All of Washington’s Corridors of Power: http://churchandstate.org.uk/2019/06/opus-deis-influence-is-felt-in-all-of-washingtons-corridors-of-power/ 
  4. Meet Dom Perrottet — the conservative Catholic and father-of-six who will be NSW's next Premier - ABC News

-Opus Dei and Global Banking-

  1. Woodlawn Foundation - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica
  2. Association For Cultural Interchange Inc - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica

-Opus Dei and Education/Telecommunications-

  1. Purity: An Education in Opus Dei - ABC News
  2. Federal government writes to regulators investigating Opus Dei-affiliated schools that former students say caused 'pain and suffering' - ABC News
  3. Opus Dei’s PR response to the Four Corners documentary: statement-from-the-communications-office-of-opus-dei-in-australia.pdf (documentcloud.org)
  4. Pared’s PR response to the Four Corners documentary: pared-foundation-response-to-four-corners-questions.pdf (documentcloud.org)

-Opus Dei’s Human Rights Issues-

  1. Unofficial English translation of Tissier v. Opus Dei (2016): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i06Sezt0jvq5CqqVY9G0cGs8eaTVAD5w/view?usp=sharing 
  2. Q&A About Tissier v. Opus Dei: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kNxulgErefNF_4eScjJZc3Kce3GHCzK9/view?usp=sharing 
  3. Eileen Johnson’s letter from the Financial Times: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R8EarKGbgIzrcbmP-q-EjMQUb1QW897Q/view?usp=drive_link 
  4. Why I can’t talk to Opus Dei, by Eileen Johnson: https://www.opuslibros.org/nuevaweb/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=28580 
  5. ‘I came out suicidal’ - The women speaking out after leaving Opus Dei: https://archive.is/20240413055749/https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/i-came-out-suicidal-the-women-speaking-out-after-leaving-opus-dei/a576273725.html 
  6. PRESS RELEASE - From Independent Irish Former Assistant Numeraries of Opus Dei: https://www.opuslibros.org/nuevaweb/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=28556 
  7. Information and Context - Information and documentation with respect to allegations of women who belonged to Opus Dei in Argentina (Opus Dei site): https://www.infoycontexto.com/en 
  8. The Unveiling of Opus Dei - Margaret speaks out: https://youtu.be/pTg7U-6ykbs?si=bVpmjwokPklMT1UV 
  9. Unveiling Opus Dei - Ann Marie Allen speaks out: https://www.rte.ie/radio/podcasts/22377631-unveiling-opus-dei-ann-marie-allen-speaks-out/
  10. Opus Dei - Antonia Cundy describes the experiences of women in Opus Dei: https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22376136/
  11. Q&A About the Financial Times Article (Opus Dei site): https://opusdei.org/en-uk/article/q-a-about-the-financial-times-article/ 
  12. The BBC, Sunday at 4 - “...the Catholic organization Opus Dei, the Work of God has found itself the focus of some unwelcome attention this past week…” (skip to time-stamp 31:00): https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001xlzh 
  13. The Opus Dei Diaries - How girls around the world were coerced into decades of grueling service to the secretive Catholic group: https://archive.is/2024.03.16-063101/https://www.ft.com/content/53bbc8a8-1c5b-4c6e-8d50-8b7c00ffa5f8
  14. Women in Argentina Claim Labor Exploitation by Opus Dei: https://apnews.com/article/business-paraguay-europe-argentina-uruguay-43b48ed43c2f7ddebf05ec6203b12d8d
  15. Servants of God? The Ordeal of 43 Women Facing Opus Dei: https://www.lanacion.com.ar/sociedad/servidoras-de-dios-el-calvario-de-las-43-mujeres-que-enfrentan-al-opus-dei-nid17052021/
  16.  Manuel Cocina Sex Abuse Case- “Shut Up, Pray, and Don’t Worry”: Opus Dei’s Solution to Clerical Sex Abuse: https://www.mgr.org/OpusDeiAndSexAbuse.html 
  17. An Opus priest, convicted of abuse by the Vatican, 'buys' the silence of his victim (religiondigital.org) (Spanish)
  18. Abuse Victim of Opus Dei Priest Wants Case to be Acknowledged: https://cruxnow.com/church-in-europe/2020/07/abuse-victim-of-opus-dei-priest-wants-case-to-be-acknowledged 
  19. The victim of abuse in Opus: "Manuel Cociña knew he could do whatever he wanted to me because he was more fragile" (religiondigital.org) (Spanish)
  20. Gaztelueta, (re)open case: what will happen now? (eldiario.es) (Spanish)
  21. The 'Gaztelueta case', seen for sentencing... canonical (eldiario.es) (Spanish)
  22. Director of Colegio Liceo de León sought for sexual abuse of minors - El Sol de México | News, Sports, Gossip, Columns (elsoldemexico.com.mx) (Spanish)
  23. Opus Dei Overshadowed by Recent Sex Abuse Scandals: https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/opus-dei-overshadowed-by-sex-abuse-scandals 
  24. The Response of the Opus Dei to the Priestly Sex Abuse Scandal: https://www.mgr.org/ODSexAbuseResponse.html 
  25. Opus Dei Paid $977,000 to Settle Sexual Misconduct Claim Against Prominent Catholic Priest: https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2019/01/08/opus-dei-paid-settle-sexual-misconduct-claim-against-prominent-catholic-priest/ 
  26. This is the complaint against Opus Dei (religiondigital.org) (Spanish)
  27. Denuncia contra el Opus Dei | PDF (scribd.com) (Spanish)
  28. The School of Maids of Opus Dei - Revista Anfibia (Spanish)
  29. Six women denounce Opus Dei for alleged Social Security fraud | Spain | elmundo.es (Spanish)
  30. Opuslibros - Opus owes us more than an explanation.- Maimonides
  31. Francisco Ferro, victim of Opus Dei pedophilia: "For 34 years they have covered up my sexual abuse" (eldiario.es) (Spanish)
  32. Minas Cathedral priest charged with several counts of sexual abuse (subrayado.com.uy) (Spanish)
  33. Francisco Ferro, victim of Opus Dei pedophilia: "For 34 years they have covered up my sexual abuse" (eldiario.es) (Spanish)
  34. Detractors from the Work:
  1. Microsoft Word - Autobiography of a Numerary Ch 1.docx (opuslibros.org)
  2. Opuslibros - A psychiatrist in the chair (II).- Secundinus [
  3. I will not speak ill of the Work | Society | THE COUNTRY (elpais.com) [Antonio Perez-Tenessa]
  4. Vatican rushes founder of Opus Dei to sainthood - UPI Archives [Rev. Vladimir Feltzman]
  5. Opus Dei. Auxiliary numerary from 1970 to 1994 (opuslibros.org)

-Opus Dei’s Involvement in World History-

  1. Operation Gladio: The Untold Story of the Unholy Alliance Between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia: https://www.heraldmalaysia.com/news/philippine-bishops-rebuked-over-pastoral-letter/64564/1 
  2. Opus Dei and Christian Dominion: https://ronaldthomaswest.com/2015/01/16/opus-dei-christian-dominion/ 
  3. WikiSpooks- Document: Operation Gladio: https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:Operation_Gladio 
  4. Gladio: How We Terrorized Ourselves: http://whale.to/c/gladio8.html 
  5. Their Will Be Done: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/1983/07/their-will-be-done/ 
  6. Meet the Catholofascists and Seize the Dei: http://www.opus-info.org/index.php/Meet_the_Catholofascists_and_seize_the_Dei 
  7. WikiLeaks- Vatican Dismissed Pinochet Massacre Reports as ‘Communist Propaganda’: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wikileaks-vatican-pinochet_n_3038072?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZWNvc2lhLm9yZy8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGrGAcHoepi7clkaSsrpbLRRnNqLQnM4XZK7dFSwSvshTqXIDe1yGkj8CqiqSii_73pwdeSfEG4fFYm8oEuXUUyyHTrB--8B1D6A46_RyvYyiOFbpQZ5pfZNHmRFKb-Mkht3WeW0pncjxKF7NOsvhsI3_4KYDECbmmoh3iUhAAfq 
  8. Pinochet was Received into Hell by Members of Opus Dei, the KKK, and Adolf Hitler: https://www.aporrea.org/internacionales/a28233.html 
  9. Fury of Opus Dei in Latin America: https://english.pravda.ru/world/103964-opusdeiamlat/ 
  10. Opus Dei and the CIA: https://philippinefolio.com/list-of-books/book-19-beggar-and-king/29/ 
  11. Willy Claes: "Opus Dei influenced the Agusta trial" (levif.be) (Spanish)

-Opus Dei and the BITE Model-

  1. Opus Dei: BITE Model Evaluation: https://freedomofmind.com/opus-dei-bite-model-evaluation-and-discussion-with-former-member-eileen-johnson/ 
  2. Interview Between Steven Hassan and Former Opus Dei Member Eileen Johnson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mdoEad0eP4&t=0s 
  3. ODAN- Deception and Drugs in Opus Dei (Letter 2): https://odan.org/tw_letter2 
  4. ODAN- Deception and Drugs in Opus Dei (Testimonies and Other Writings): https://odan.org/tw_deception_and_drugs 
  5. ODAN- Basic Human Rights were Violated: https://odan.org/tw_basic_human_rights_were_violated 

-Books About Opus Dei-

  1. Opus, the Cult of Financial Chicanery, Human Trafficking, and Right Wing Conspiracy Inside the Catholic Church, by Gareth Gore: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Opus/Gareth-Gore/9781668016145
  2. The Public Prosecutor, by Jef Geeraerts: https://www.amazon.com/Public-Prosecutor-Jef-Geeraerts/dp/1904738389
  3. Inside Opus Dei, by Maria del Carmen Tapia: https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Opus-Dei-Unfinished-Story/dp/0826419305

-Other Important Resources-

  1. Web page - The Opus Dei Guidebook: https://sites.google.com/a/realcatholiconline.org/the-opus-dei-guidebook/home 
  2. Web page - The Opus Dei Awareness Network: https://odan.org/ 
  3. Web page - OpusLibros: opuslibros.org (Spanish)
  4. Web page - Catholic Committee on Opus Dei Operations in NYC: http://www.catholic-nyc.org/
  5. YouTube media about Opus Dei: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLobrhRpLM5J0BVSGEc4_AWZWnHgCO3epg 
  6. YouTube channel - Nopus Dei: https://www.youtube.com/@nopusdei
  7. YouTube channel - Agora (primarily Spanish with English uploads on Thursdays): https://www.youtube.com/@Agora-Coloquios

-Social/Legal/Mental Health Resources-

  1. Cease and Desist Letter template: https://www.instructables.com/How-to-Write-a-Cease-and-Desist-LetterOrder/