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Supreme Court Judges Sharing an Opus Dei Seal of Approval
To understand the goings on in SCOTUS today, you must understand Opus Dei, a fascist organization in the Roman Catholic Church. Why?
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Because the person who forwarded five names to the senate for approval as supreme court judges is Leonardo Leo, who is an out of the closet Opus Dei operative.
It was he who pushed Mitch McConnell to nominate Roberts, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett for SCOTUS.
He is also “closest friends” with Clarence Thomas and has been called “one of the most powerful figures in the United States.”*
| Leonard Leo, Federalist Society co-chairman and board member of Opus Dei’s Catholic Information Center, facilitated the appointment of Supreme Court justices John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett
Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett. Photo: Federalist Society.
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Leo is executive vice president of the Federalist Society and co-director of the board of directors of “Catholic Information Center” which is a right-wing Catholic think tank in Washington DC that raises millions of dollars to promote conservative judges. The Charles Koch Foundation is heavily involved also, having given $30 million to the cause; so too is the
NRA.
I have studied Opus Dei and its founder who was a fascist Spanish priest and ally of dictator Franco. He was rushed into canonization under Pope JP II faster than any “saint” in history. He also “connived” in his own canonization before he died—the only “saint” I ever heard of who did that.**
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“The 10 tactics of fascism,” by Yale professor and author Jason Stanley. Video by Big Think
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Opus Dei is about control, not freedom. Theocracy, not democracy.
Part of fascist ideology is that it is fitting that men have control over women’s bodies (my book documents this).
Indeed, control is what fascism and Opus Dei are all about.
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Mussolini defined fascism as the “marriage of corporations and government” and we are seeing that play out in the current SCOTUS where environmental rights take second place to corporate power; and voting rights get gutted in favor of dark money from very dark corporations (NRA and Koch brothers among them).
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And the Supreme Court itself becomes a cesspool of religious ideology ignoring the pluralism of American culture in favor of a far right version of evangelical and Roman Catholic Christianity committed to anti-abortion fanaticism.
Susan Sontag defines fascism as “institutional violence.”
| “After Which Failed Pregnancy Should I Have Been Imprisoned?” U.S. Representative Lucy McBath (D.,GA) tells the House Judiciary Committee her experience of reproductive care following a stillbirth. Democracy Now!
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This is surely what is happening where states are bent on locking up women for miscarriages, inciting bounty hunters to chase pregnant women, forcing women and girls to term even if they have been raped or victims of incest, threatening doctors with jail terms. Cruelty rules and Institutional Violence is alive and well thanks to
this unsupreme court.
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Queries for Contemplation
Have you heard of Mr. Lee, “one of the most powerful figures in the United States” before? And Opus Dei? Why do you think fascism is so attractive to many “religious”
people and to many others in our time? Doesn’t it seem to be the opposite of what Jesus taught about the poor, the oppressed, love and justice?
* https://churchandstate.org.uk/2022/05/leonard-leo-opus-dei-and-the-radical-catholic-takeover-of-the-supreme-court/. And Whitehouse Remarks on the Federalist Society and Leonard Leo | U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island
**From Michael Walsh, Opus Dei: An Investigation into the Secret Society Struggling for Power within the Roman Catholic Church (SF: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992), p.195. Cited in Fox (below), pp. 117ff.
See Matthew Fox, “Opus Dei,” in Fox, The Pope’s War: Why Ratzinger’s Secret Crusade Has Imperiled the Church and How It Can Be Saved,” pp. 106-124.
Banner Image: Active members in the Federalist Society (L-R Top): Supreme Court justices Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, Samuel Alito (Bottom) Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett. Composite image from official Supreme Court portraits on Wikimedia Commons. |
The Pope’s War: Why Ratzinger’s Secret Crusade Has Imperiled the Church and How It Can Be Saved
The Pope’s War offers a provocative look at three decades of corruption in the Catholic Church, focusing on Josef Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI. The final section in the book focuses on birthing a truly catholic christianity. Matthew Fox presents insights from his 12-year, up-close-and-personal battle with Ratzinger, tracing the historical roots of degradation in the Church and offering a new way to understand why Benedict XVI is now mired in crisis as Pope. Fox then outlines his
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