Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church by Gareth GoreMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Opus paints a bleak picture of how easily and quickly ambition and money can poison a faith. Gore uproots Opus Dei from its professed mythos and dangles a fascist-supporting, Holocaust denying, fame-obsessed founder--Josemaria Escriva--a backhanded ascension in the Catholic hierarchy through bribes and kompromat, all the way to its ruining of the Spanish financial system and its interweaving with American Political Dark Money. Along the way there is human trafficking and slavery and child abuse at almost every turn. Gore's Opus shows the corrupting power in believing that the ends can justify the means and how easily faith can be twisted toward evil.
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