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If you feel like this summary sort of buries the lede, I skimmed the article, and long story short, this is a controversial sect that is known for some severe practices and severe abuses.
Pope Francis started to act against Opus Dei just before his death, and Pope Leo seems to want to stop or otherwise curb or work against them, as well.
Was this spry 88-year-old killed by followers of Opus Dei‽
j/k I don't know enough about them to say anything. I thought it was an interesting idea, but seems unlikely.
I mean he literally died one day after meeting JD Vance, so...
Opus Dei is the organization in the DaVinci Code book/movie
It's also a point of friction in the Sopranos episode "Rat Pack," at the funeral of Carmine Sr., with an Opus Dei rosary used by Johnny Sack to convey to Carmine Jr. (while they were maneuvering for succession) that he didn't know his dad as well as he thought he did. Opus Dei's background as a secretive organization is part of the tone of that interaction.
Yeah the albino guy flagellates himself and wears some kinda spikey garter, do they really do that?
There is self flagellation, but not as dramatic as in the movies
I'm no expert, but when christianity first took off, before Rome embraced it, they had tons of crazies doing flagellation and hurting/depriving themselves.
It was partly the craziness of the faithful to hurt themselves for no seeming good reason that led rome to adopt the religion to make good little slave subjects, as I understand it.
Then you don't understand it very well.
Eh? How so? Because what I wrote is accurate, the degree to which the crazies were a factor on the romans to adopt the religion is debatable, and yes, calling all catholics slave subjects may not have been the most political way to put it. Nevertheless. How is it inaccurate praytell?
Scalia was one.
Gtfo. For real? (Un)holy shit.
Justice Scalia?
Justice is not a word I associate with that enemy of democracy.
Apparently there was a papist conspiracy to undermine democracy, huh. I'd give credit to the people who saw it coming if their intellectual and spiritual descendants weren't the gleeful coconspirators