"Monica and 42 other former assistant numeraries from Latin America accused Opus Dei of enslavement in Argentina"

[Snarkoleptic]

The Opus Dei diaries - How girls around the world were coerced into decades of gruelling service to the secretive Catholic group.
https://www.ft.com/content/53bbc8a8-1c5b-4c6e-8d50-8b7c00ffa5f8?shareType=nongift

Interesting article that points to job #1 in organized religion - control and exploit women.

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Teena had been miserable ever since she whistled. Shortly afterwards, Montero, her glamorous confidante, ceased to acknowledge her. The older woman passed by placidly in the corridors, her former care and attention haunting Teena like a living ghost. All she had done was give Teena a cilice, a barbed metal chain she was to tie around her thigh for two hours every day, and a discipline, a rope whip with knotted ends she was to use on her back when she prayed the Hail Mary.

Mortifications are part of Opus Dei’s daily spiritual plan, and they aren’t limited to the flesh. Asceticism is a way to imitate Christ’s life, to take up the cross with him. Teena was encouraged to offer up her suffering, however small or temporary, to God: sitting in an uncomfortable position, denying herself food she liked.

The girl had stopped eating. She buckled her uniform’s belt one notch tighter each month, until there were none left. She longed for the fields in Ballyroan. But when she wrote letters to her family she didn’t know what she could say. The numeraries read everything she sent or received — to protect her, they said, from immoral thoughts.

[MagickMuffin]

1. Is this what Tommy Tuberbelt was talking about with Satanic Cults

I see how they prey on children!

[leftyladyfrommo]

2. This doesn't surprise me at all. Opus Dei

Is really oddball. ..i think about 3 of the Supremes are Opus Dei.

[BComplex]

3. Clarence Thomas, Amy Coney-Barrett, and I know previously Antonin Scalia was ... all Opus Dei.

I'm not positive about Samuel Alito, but if he's not, he sure acts like it.

Oh! And, on edit: Leonard Leo, the purchaser of the supreme court, is also Opus Dei.