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A Glimpse Inside a Catholic 'Force'
Opus Dei is an international lay Catholic group whose core ideal is the sanctification of work. But critics and some former members have accused the group of having cult like practices and promoting a right wing agenda.
Opus Dei was founded in Spain in 1928; today, it has 84,000 members in 80 countries. For many, the group first gained wide attention when it was portrayed in Dan Brown's best selling novel, The Da Vinci Code. The thriller depicted the group as a repository for arcane knowledge and fervent even dangerous belief.
Two other real life events also helped to raise Opus Dei's profile: FBI agent Robert Hanssen, a member of the group, was arrested for spying in 2001; and Pope John Paul II canonized founder Josemaria Escriva as a saint in 2002.
Vatican reporter John Allen's new book is Opus Dei: An Objective Look Behind the Myths and Reality of the Most Controversial Force in the Catholic Church. The book is being billed as the first serious journalistic investigation of the highly secretive organization. Allen writes for the National Catholic Reporter; he is also a Vatican analyst for CNN and NPR.
Read an excerpt from Opus Dei:
Chapter One
A QUICK OVERVIEW OF OPUS DEI
The Tablet of London, a well known English Catholic publication, recently published a series of jokes about various groups within the Catholic Church, and here's how the one on Opus Dei goes: How many members of Opus Dei does it take to screw in a lightbulb? The answer is, one hundred one to screw in the bulb, and ninety nine to chant, "We are not a movement, we are not a movement."
Though perhaps a bit catty, the joke makes a good point,
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So what was that impulse?
s of Opus Dei date the group's foundation to October 2, 1928, when Josemar'a Escriva, then a young Spanish priest making a retreat at a Vincentian monastery in Madrid, experienced a vision, revealing to him "whole and entire" God's wish for what would later become Opus Dei. Obviously the vision was not "entire" in the sense that it answered every question, since it required subsequent inspirations to demonstrate to Escriva that there should be a women's branch to Opus Dei (that came in 1930) and that Opus Dei should also include a body of priests, the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross (1943). Yet in some sense, Escriva insisted, the blueprint for Opus Dei was contained in that original experience on the Feast of the Guardian Angels in 1928. Here's how he once described it: "On October 2, 1928, the feast of the Holy Guardian Angels by now nearly forty years have gone by the Lord willed that Opus Dei might come to be, a mobilization of Christians disposed to sacrifice themselves with joy for others, to render divine all the ways of man on earth, sanctifying every upright work, every honest labor, every earthly occupation."
Escriva and the members of Opus Dei are thus convinced that their organization is rooted in God's will. As Escriva himself once put it, "I was not the founder of Opus Dei. Opus Dei was founded in spite of me." Originally Escriva did not even give this new reality a name; "Opus Dei," which is Latin for "work of God," came from an offhand comment from Escriva's confessor, who once asked him, "How's that Work of God going?" This is why members usually refer to Opus Dei as "the Work."
The core idea revealed to Escriva in that 1928 vision, and unfolded in subsequent stages of Opus Dei's development, was the sanctification of ordinary life by laypeople living the gospel and Church teaching in their fullness. This is why one of the leading symbols for Opus Dei is a simple cross within a circle symbolism betokens the sanctification of the world from within. The idea is that holiness, "being a saint," is not just the province of a few spiritual athletes, but is the universal destiny of every Christian. Holiness is not exclusively, or even principally, for priests and nuns. Further, holiness is not something to be achieved in the first place through prayer and spiritual discipline, but rather through the mundane details of everyday work. Holiness thus doesn't require a change in external circumstances, but a change in attitude, seeing everything anew in the light of one's supernatural destiny.
In that sense, admirers of Escriva, who included Pope John Paul II, believe the Spanish saint anticipated the "universal call to holiness" that would be announced by the Second Vatican Council. The late cardinal of Florence and right hand man of Pope Paul VI, Giovanni Benelli who crossed swords with Escriva over the years once said that what Saint Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, was to the sixteenth century Council of Trent, Escriva was to the Second Vatican Council. That is, he was the saint who translated the council into the life of the Church.
In a December 2004 interview, the number two official of Opus Dei, Monsignor Fernando Ocariz, a Spanish theologian who has served since 1986 as a consultor to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican's doctrinal agency, explained that Escriva's understanding of the "universal call to holiness" had two dimensions, subjective and objective. The subjective is the invitation to individual persons to sanctification, meaning that all people, regardless of their station in life, are called to become saints. The objective is the realization that all of creation, and every situation in human experience, is a means to this end.
"All human realities, all the circumstances of human life, all the professions, every family and social situation, are means of sanctification," Ocariz said. "It's not just that everyone is supposed to be a saint despite the fact of not being priests or monks, but precisely that all the realities of life are places that can lead one to the Lord."
Commenting on The Song of Songs from the Old Testament, Escriva once put this idea in lyrical form. "I will seek the one my soul loves in the streets and public squares," he wrote. "I will run from one part of the world to the other . . . seeking the peace of my soul. And I find it in the things that come from outside, which for me are not an obstacle; on the contrary, they are a path and a stairway to draw closer and closer, to unite myself more and more with God." That instinct to find God "in the things that come from outside," the normal hustle and bustle of the workaday world, is the Opus Dei impulse.
Escriva once described Opus Dei as "an intravenous injection in the bloodstream of society." s would be doctors and lawyers and university professors and barbers and bus drivers, and from the outside they would appear to be exactly the same as everyone else. There's a famous story about the first three priests ordained for Opus Dei del Portillo, Jose Mar'a Hernandez de Garnica, and Jose Luis Mzquiz illustrates this point. Escriva noticed that not one of them smoked, which was rather odd in Spain in 1944. He told them that one of them was going to have to take up smoking, lest people get the impression there was something unwordly about these Opus Dei guys. The choice fell on Portillo, who would eventually succeed Escriva. Opus Dei's lay members would not wear special religious habits, they would not be cloistered, and they would not claim to possess a special state of life. The idea was to redeem the world, not by retreating from it, but by "Christianizing it," carrying out all the tasks of daily living with a new spirit. Escriva's shorthand formula was, "Sanctify your work. Sanctify yourself in your work. Sanctify others through your work."
It's worth underlining the revolutionary character of this vision in Spain in the 1930s and 1940s. As Escriva described it, Opus Dei is not supposed to be a clergy driven enterprise. Laypeople are supposed to share the same vocation with the clergy, in a situation of full equality. The clergy, in his understanding, are more akin to support staff, experts in the spiritual life who offer the sacraments and means of doctrinal and spiritual formation, but the real "action" is out in the world. Only a layperson can decide how a particular lawsuit, or surgery, or newspaper article, can be made an offering to God, carrying others toward sanctification. The idea was to form people and then "turn them loose," trusting them to exercise their freedom. This includes, in principle, a commitment to male/female equality. In Opus Dei, women receive the same doctrinal and theological formation as men, including those men will eventually be ordained priests. All this was a break from a traditional clericalist mentality, and Escriva was denounced in some circles in Spain as an anticlericalist, even a heretic. There was talk of reporting him to the Vatican.
Everything about Opus Dei, at least from the official point of view, exists to promote this aim: forming ordinary laymen and women in Christian doctrine and spirituality,
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Critics, it should be noted, generally insist that this is a smoke screen, that the "real" aims of the organization acquisition of political power, or financial gain, or new recruits hidden. For now, however, it's worth stepping through the way Opus Dei organizes its life and describes itself, in part so we can compare that with the criticisms later on.
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As Opus Dei has become more prominent, it sometimes happens that a person walks in off the street and announces, "I want to be a member of Opus Dei." In such cases, these people are advised to learn a little something about Opus Dei first. Generally, however, it doesn't work this way. ship usually arises out of getting to know Opus Dei, either through family who are members, or by exposure to one of Opus Dei's "corporate works" such as a school or youth center, or through some other activity that may be run by members even though it's not formally sponsored by Opus Dei, such as a TV news agency or a clinic it's possible to form a personal friendship. However it happens, a prospective member usually has been attending evenings of recollection, retreats,
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What's the draw? At a supernatural level, the answer is always that God has given someone a vocation to Opus Dei. At the human level, however, various factors can be the points of initial attraction. For some, it may be reading the works of Escriva; in that department, most members say the first thing to catch their attention was the idea that study or work could be their path to holiness. For others, it may be that Opus Dei offers an environment in which a serious, prayerful Catholic can feel supported. For many, it's the example set by the numeraries, who often come across as smart, dedicated, devout, and happy people, living coherent lives based on their faith. In other words, they "walk the walk." Opus Dei centers can also be a lot of fun. When I visited the Windmoor Center at Notre Dame in September 2004, for example, I arrived for their weekly Friday night fried chicken dinner,
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Since Opus Dei is not a religious order, members do not take "vows," nor does their status under Church law change when they join. Laypeople remain laity. Instead, they affiliate themselves by means of that quintessential secular instrument, a contract. Essentially, members strike a deal with Opus Dei: They agree to live in the spirit of Opus Dei and to support its apostolic activities, and in return Opus Dei agrees to provide doctrinal and spiritual formation.
The formula of the contract is as follows:I, in the full use of my freedom, declare that with firm resolve I dedicate myself to pursue sanctity and to practice apostolate with all my energy according to the spirit and praxis of Opus Dei.
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"We acknowledge Donald's success as a businessman, and genuinely appreciate the opportunity 'The Apprentice' afforded all of us," Pinkett said in a statement. "We, however, strongly condemn Donald's campaign of sexism, xenophobia, racism, violence and hate."
Trump hosted "The Apprentice" and its celebrity spin off edition from 2004 through early 2015. Nowadays, on the campaign trail, he is fond of citing his experience on the show and its success in the ratings.
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Van Gaal also had spells in charge of Ajax, Barcelona, Bayern Munich and AZ.
"So much has happened in my family, you become a human being again with your nose pressed to the facts," he added.
The Dutchman also revealed he turned down lucrative offers to continue his coaching career in the Far East.
Van Gaal also said winning the FA Cup was the greatest achievement of his career as it came against the backdrop of his impending sacking: "I was standing on the gangplank for the last six months. My head was in the guillotine, put there by the English media.
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Van Gaal was asked to emulate that success at Spanish giants Barcelona. He inherited Bobby Robson's side in 1997 and led them to two successive La Liga titles and the Copa del Rey.
His country came calling in 2000, but his first stint in charge lasted less than two years when Netherlands failed to qualify for the 2002 World Cup, the first time they had missed the competition since 1986.
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He then guided AZ Alkmaar to the 2005 06 Eredivisie title before moving to the Bundesliga, where he helped Bayern Munich to the 2009 10 Bundesliga title.
'Artificial leaf' faces economic hurdle
Not all prototypes make it out of the laboratory, but the 'artificial leaf' is so elegant that its design seems to beg for commercial production. Described in Science last year1 by a team led by Dan Nocera at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the catalyst coated wafer is a silicon version of a photosynthesizing leaf: it turns sunlight into storable fuel by splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen.
But Sun Catalytix, the company founded in Cambridge off the back of Nocera's work, says that it won't be scaling up the prototype for field tests. The device offers few savings over other ways to make hydrogen from sunlight, the company says.
"We have to be focused on what will be durably better than conventional ways to make renewable hydrogen," explains chief technology officer Tom Jarvi. Hydrogen from a solar panel and electrolysis unit can currently be made for about US$7 per kilogram, the firm estimates; the artificial leaf would come in at $6.50. (It costs just $1 2 to make a kilogram of hydrogen from fossil fuels).
With the prices of solar cells dropping all the time, the firm is not going to make a heavy investment that's unlikely to pay off. Instead, it is looking at cheaper designs but these require yet to be invented semiconductor materials. So for the moment, "the artificial leaf is in the fridge", Sun Catalytix chemist Joep Pijpers says.
The solar hydrogen challengeThat decision is disappointing but not surprising. Both Sun Catalytix and a report commissioned by the US Department of Energy2 have found that the cost of systems to produce hydrogen from sunlight is dominated by the engineering costs of the photovoltaic (light harvesting) infrastructure, mainly because of the sheer mass of material required, including frames, substrates and materials to protect the semiconducting silicon from damage.
That is also true for the artificial leaf, says Pijpers. The design improves on previous attempts3 to couple light harvesting solar cells and water splitting catalysts into one device because it uses cheap, abundant catalysts and does not require extremely acidic or alkaline solutions. It is not, however,
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The path to cheaper solar hydrogen probably lies in cutting down the expense of the light harvesting part of the system. One solution may be to resculpt the silicon into flexible micrometre long wires; another could be to avoid silicon altogether, in favour of solar cells made from other kinds of semiconductors, or perhaps organic materials.
Sun Catalytix's current thinking is to keep the wireless design of the artificial leaf, but to reduce engineering costs by scattering a slurry of small particles through water, rather than having slabs of silicon. The snag is that simply cutting up the artificial leaf into small particles won't work. One panel of silicon doesn't produce enough voltage to split water, so the leaf links up three panels to gain voltage in much the same way as batteries do when connected in series. But that's not an option in a nanoparticle design. The firm is therefore looking to other light harvesting materials, such as iron oxide. The advantage of such already oxidized materials is that they need less protection from the oxygen produced during water splitting, but it is also hard to get at the electric charges created when iron oxide absorbs photons.
Inspirational designThere are other ways to reduce costs, says Nocera. For example, a dye impregnated plasticcould be used to absorb the light, then pass the photons on to the silicon to generate the current for photo catalysts. This would cut down on the amount of silicon needed. Jarvi agrees that the panel configuration could probably be made cheaper another option is to concentrate the sunlight to cut down on the area over which the panels would have to be installed, he says. But for now, Sun Catalytix which is backed by the multinational conglomerate Tata Group and has received a $4 million grant from the energy department's Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy (ARPA E) has decided not to focus on this approach.
Although the prototype doesn't offer significant savings over wired solar panels for the moment,
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City edge closer to two
Duracrete Products City have put themselves within touching distance of the Oxford Trust Two Day competition after an irrepressible day one display against Onerahi Central.
Onerahi were sent into bat by City and immediately found themselves on the back foot as City came out firing with the ball.
City took their momentum into their batting innings and, after losing opener Bert Horner early after being caught behind off Sean Doel (1 for 25),
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Joey Yovich (52) and James Thompson (66) put on 107 for the second wicket before Beehre (2 for 32) grabbed two wickets in two overs,
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However, it was a minor speed bump as Ian Page (33) and Harry Darkins (66) continued City's charge, ending the day at 249 for 6 and holding a lead of 183.
Keogh (3 for 19) had the best figures for Onerahi Central, removing both Page and Darkins.
Tyler Lortan (26) made a start at the top of the order but Kamo bowled tightly to stop the top five from doing much damage.
Lakhvir Singh (3 for 27) and Ben Hyde (2 for 21) led the attack well.
However, Joseph O'Sullivan (35) and Neal Parlane (41) added vital runs in the lower order to take Maungakaramea to 187 for eight declared.
Kamo started their reply in good form as the top three of Ben Hyde (43 off 19 balls), Rhyce Brittain Clark (15) and Leon Cross (62) all got starts.
But the bowling of Mark Southee unravelled their hard work as he and Tyler Lortan (3 for 25) tore through Kamo's middle and lower order.
Southee in particular was damaging as he grabbed five for 54.
Kamo ended up just 19 short of first innings points.
Heading into day two, Maungakaramea are 106 for five in their second innings with BJ Cochrane (51) and Parlane (29) at the crease.
In the final match Whangarei Boys' High School got first innings points in a tense match against Kaipara Flats,
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Kaipara Flats were led well by Jack Beaven's 50, but only efforts from the lower order saved them from a small total as they managed to reach 151.
Sam Webb (3 for 57) and Campbell Jones (2 for 14) were the leaders for the high schoolers.
In reply Caleb Boswell Smith scored 50 of his own as the WBHS top order all got starts.
However, good bowling from Kaipara Flats, headed by Rhys Jones (2 for 13) and Kyran Dill (2 for 32) made reaching 152 a chore for WBHS.
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