Opus Dei is Vatican’s Mafia

Posted January 19, 2005

N.S. Rajaram
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Hand behind the coup

Anyone following the brazen attack on the Kanchi Mutt and the relentless witch hunt
against its leaders and officials cannot be in doubt that it must have a powerful
organization directing its every move. It is no coincidence that these attacks, which were
little more than pinpricks when the NDA government was in power, have become
suddenly bold and open once the UPA came to power with Sonia Gandhi as the power
behind the Government.

Two developments have brought a sense of urgency to the conspiracy or campaign behind
this assault on the nation: (1) the rapidly eroding base of the Congress, especially in
North India, with the natural implication that the Dynasty will have difficulty holding on
to power for any length of time by strictly constitutional means; and (2) the growing fear
in Europe, especially in Italy, that Christendom is losing the civilizational war against
Islam. The survival of Christianity is at stake.

The first is dynastic while the second is geopolitical. Rapid changes in national and
international politics and a creeping sense of fear bordering on paranoia have led to an
unholy alliance between anti-national forces in India and Christian organizations of the
world hoping to use India’s vast resources in Europe’s and Christianity's desperate
struggle for survival in the West. The Vatican’s mafia

The country most vulnerable to the Islamic invasion of Europe is Italy. The institution
that is at the greatest risk is the Vatican, seen the world over as the seat of Christianity
though in religious matters, many Christians do not accept its leadership. But financially
and organizationally, it is unmatched by any other Christian sect. Most importantly, the
Vatican has an intelligence apparatus and a network of agents all over the world that non-
Catholic denominations lack. Also, the Vatican’s patronage of this machinery ensures
complete secrecy since the Vatican is probably the world’s most secretive organization
and a sovereign state to boot.

This intelligence organization is the sinister but little known Opus Dei. The Time
magazine recently had a feature on it, but the Indian media, a good part of it under the
influence of the Opus Dei, has maintained complete silence over its activities and even its
very existence.

What is this mysterious organization that carries out operations that would put the CIA to
shame in the name of God and Christ? (Opus Dei in Latin means the work of God.)
Opus Dei was founded shortly before the Spanish Civil War by a Spanish adventurer and
Christian fanatic by name Jose Maria Escriva de Belaguer. Born in the sleepy town of
Barbastro, he rose by the dint of his determination, industry and ruthlessness to be the
virtual dictator of the Vatican, and came to be known as the Super Pope.

This was no idle boast. In 1978, Albino Luciani was elected Pope as John Paul I. He
threatened to change the Vatican with his reforms, but died within a month of assuming
office under mysterious circumstances without an autopsy or even a death certificate.
This led to the election of the reactionary Karol Woztyla, better known as Pope John Paul
II. And he showed his gratitude by rushing the Opus Die founder Excriva’s nomination to
sainthood in record time, though Mother Teresa’s name still languishes.

With more than 100,000 members worldwide and more than a million activists, the Opus
Die that Escriva founded now controls the Catholic Church and many other Christian and
secular organizations. The Vatican regards Escriva as God’s gift to the Church in our
time. When Escriva died in 1975, its officials openly boasted: In 20 or 30 years, all that
remains of the Church will be Opus Dei. This has proven remarkably prophetic.

The Opus Dei agenda at the time was to combine economic and political control with
thought control. It believes that the first two cannot be achieved without the third. And
here is where conversion, especially in India comes into play. With Europeans unwilling
to lay down their lives to defend Christianity, much less the Vatican, Christian
organizations and nominally Christian nations of Europe have cast their covetous eyes on
India with its vast manpower and material resources. This is now made all the more
urgent by the Islamic threat to Europe from within and without, and by the fact as the
Pope has himself admitted: Christianity has lost the West. This realization has made some
non-Catholic churches (like the evangelical outfits) to join in the rush for gaining
converts in India.

Europe, especially the Vatican, would like nothing better than a Musharraf-like puppet in
India, willing to place India’s resources, especially its vast manpower, in the service of
defending Europe against Islam.

Crusade driven by paranoia

The vision of the Opus Dei founder Escriva was spelled out by an internal document in
the following words: The labor of placing Jesus [i.e., the Christianity] at the summit of
human activity throughout the world. This now sounds like a pipedream, with
Christianity itself struggling for survival in Europe, and with Islamic warriors in Kosovo
less than a hundred miles from Trieste on the Italian border. By breaking up Yugoslavia,
the Western powers virtually cut their own throats, by destroying the buffer state that had
protected Europe for nearly a century.

The situation today is different. Christianity, much less the Vatican no longer sees
Christianity triumphing in the world. The concern today is over survival. Here is
Vatican’s nightmare vision. In the first millennium, Christianity lost Jerusalem to the
Arabs. In the second millennium, in 1453, Constantinople fell to the Islamic warriors of
the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II; the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire disappeared
from the map. Now, with Islamic warriors poised in Kosovo, waiting to make the short
leap to Italy, Christianity may next lose Rome itself.

Probably this is what the Pope had in mind when he said that the third millennium would
see Christianity in Asia. It also may be read to mean that he sees Christianity
disappearing from Europe. This is not helped by the fact that Italy is not known for the
heroism of its soldiers as many Indian veterans who fought against Mussolini’s army will
attest. (Roman pickpockets are a greater menace than the Italian army.) This nightmare
scenario is reflected in Opus Dei sources. Participants at an Opus Dei seminar in
Barcelona concluded: A parallel exists between the present situation in the Occident
[West] and the fall of the Roman Empire. A leading Canadian expert on Opus Dei
observed: Now this was an alarmist, not to say scare-mongering conclusion. But it was
perfectly in line with the Opus Dei’s use of the psychology of fear. The point is not
whether this doomsday scenario is valid, but the undeniable fact that the Opus Dei (and
the Vatican) is driven by this fear. To make matters worse, many Islamic leaders also
believe that Rome, and even Europe, is theirs for the taking and all they have to do is
mount a determined assault. They point out that they defeated one superpower the Soviet
Union and are now on the verge of defeating America or so they believe. Europe they
feel will be a pushover.

Cyber-crusade

In view of the Vatican’s inability to mount a military offensive against encroaching Islam,
it has resorted to cunning and subterfuge something at which it has always excelled. Opus
Dei is now at the forefront of what it calls cyber-crusade. The idea is to use its
propaganda muscle and subversion of state institutions in countries like India to gain
converts for defending Christianity. Its principal assault is on higher education and the
media.

Opus Dei has set up several universities and research institutions with names like the
Institution for Human Sciences in Vienna, University of Human Rights in Geneva, the
Weatherford Foundation for African Students in New York and many others. It even
attempted to set up a college in Oxford but was thwarted. As early as 1979, an Opus Dei
memorandum stated:

Members of Opus Dei already work in the following professional enterprises 479
universities and institutes of higher learning in five continents; 604 newspapers,
magazines and scientific publications; 52 radio and television stations; 38 news and
publicity agencies; 12 film production and distribution companies

Today, 25 years later, it is at least twice as extensive. And the list does not include
individuals journalists and scholars who work for Opus Dei in institutions not owned by
it (and also NGOs). It is a virtual certainty that Opus Dei has significant presence in
India. As recently as 1993, Opus Dei opened a new center in India headed by a Spanish
wool merchant or so he claimed. A decade before him, the cultural attaché at the Italian
Embassy in Delhi was rumored to be in the pay of Opus Dei. (He was later removed for
running an antique smuggling racket under diplomatic cover.)

More than forty years ago, the Indian-Spanish theologian Raimundo Panikkar came to
India armed with a scholarship from the National Science and Research Council (NSRC)
an Opus Dei front. Has anyone looked at the possibility that some Indian foundations
might also be fronting for Opus Dei activities like the Heritage Foundation of
Washington?

What has all this got to do with the assault on Kanchi Mutt? Subramanian Swamy and
several others have charged that it is part of an international conspiracy and a threat to
national security. If such is the case, it cannot possibly be the handiwork of just a few
adventurers and politicians. Opus Dei is one of the few organizations with the resources
and the motive. Its plan calls for fighting Islam to the last Indian.

This is what India is really up against. The Kanchi Mutt case is just the tip of the iceberg.

Reference Their Kingdom Come: Inside the Secret World of Opus Dei (1997) by Robert
Hutchison. London: Corgi Books.