Most of us don't know much about Catholic moss and fern stories. We're not all caught on even Code of Leonardo da Vinci, and unusual beams on church Pagons are black magic for the general public, so let us explain: the numerar is the higher placed in the hierarchy of Opus Dei an activist who lives in celibacy – in this case Szrot meant Marcin Romanowski, an officer of Sovereign Poland, detained on Monday by the ABW in connection with irregularities in the disposition of funds from the Justice Fund. There are more supernutrients, they don't should be celibate, and in the question of Szrot, how rapidly the net users decoded, it was about Romana Giertych.
The PiS politician so demanded Opus Dei to disclose the rules of procedure, which, as it turns out, may be a kind of back-room agreement, on which the destiny of the most crucial politicians in the country depends. And although idiotic it would seem at first glance that the question in the mouth of an experienced civilian servant is (contrary to intentions) a amazingly valuable contribution to the discussion of the secret links of Polish politicians and a symptom of a larger problem: Opus Dei plays any kind of – in any case, secret and even anti-democratic – function in the state, and members of this organization will be found both in Roman Giertyko's rear seat and in parties more openly collaborating with the Church.
Two different cases
What is Opus Dei anyway? Journalists, publicists, erstwhile members and specialists on a subject founded nearly a 100 years ago in Spain, an organization that peaked at its highest in times Franco's fascist dictatorship, they call it among others "the church in the Church," ‘catholic mafia’ ‘an octopus’, "The spies of the Vatican".
As he says in conversation with Piotr Głuchowski Father Stefan Moszoro-Dąbrowski, head of the exhibition of the Works of God on Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland, after 1989 Opus Dei “entered Poland on his back” controversial Pope John Paul II, who in 1982 appointed the organization the first (and to this day the only) prelate of individual – kind of diocese "covering not territory, but individual secular people around the world".
Deaf in his text besides brings closer the way of expanding the influence of the organization and explains how it is that although formally the papal defender has almost nothing, it has a lot. Its members “include only an oral agreement of obedience (in the presence of a witness – a associate of an organization), after which they themselves establish foundations and associations which later belong to them, not to Opus Dei.”
Let us return for a minute to the roots of Opus Dei, and how it is explained present by the ministers from it who sit in the Frankist governments. According to the website, the founder, Josemaria Escriva, “he always refused to interfere with politics, even erstwhile it seemed appropriate and profitable. Simply, these are not the objectives of Opus Dei.”
Cute. In another words, the organization flourished during the dictatorship, its members lived like doughnuts in butter and sat in government, but well – it was not its goal! Franco, however, was known for his support of spiritual start-ups of various character and did not get in the way of clergymen, allowing a 100 flowers to flourish. “[Opus Dei’s membership and members’ civic activities] must stay separate, ” says the page. associate of the Work has the right (and in many cases besides duty) to express political, social, cultural views. It does so in a free and full consistent manner with its Christian identity."
So Opus Dei has nothing officially, but he assumes foundations and associations that run its members, associated with the secret oral organization on obedience. It is devoid of interference with politics, and at the same time by definition it is simply a diocese covering individual secular people around the planet and deals, as Moszoro says, with "motivative work". And although its members "have the right to express their views freely and full in line with their Christian identity", this identity opens their organization affiliation in Poland to KO, PiS, Sovereign Poland and various neo-endences – the full right.
God’s Work in Poland 2024
I'm not going to give you all the charges you've made to the sectarians since the flourishing. I will not dig into the fact that the first Polish priest Opus Dei is the erstwhile head of the All-Polish Youth, the successor of Roman Giertych in this prestigious position. Neither misogyny nor ties to the utmost right or sexual abuse cases that have dealt with members of the organization in at least 5 countries. any of this controversy You'll find hereFor now, all you gotta do is feel that Gierty and Romanowski are provoking arguments for the organization they belong to, "do not want to kill even flies in the toilet".
Some 50 percent of the politicians mentioned above are Simon Holownia. True, the Catholic writer himself wrote that he does not belong to the organization, However, it considers it to be ‘good’. He most likely hasn't seen the Presidential Palace yet in 2006, so it was easier for him to snort something unrighteous. It would be good to ask the talker of the Sejm about his views on Opus Dei today.
Especially since the head of Poland 2050 lives in a villa property in Otwock, where on 11 plots reside amazingly many highly placed members of God's Work, including the lawyers of Zygmunt Solorz-Żak. And although his ties to the Order of Malta, Holovnia explained in a comprehensive message a year agoIt's about whether Opus Dei is behind him, we can only take religion Statement by Michał Koboski that ‘no, no, no’. Besides, whoever didn't live on an exclusive settlement for the verch of a secret church organization, let him throw the first stone.
Ah, I forgot – Thomas Friday took drugs a long time ago, don't take him seriously. Tracking politicians' ties to church extremists is evidence of madness, not that of whipping with a string soaked in wax. Someone's already taken care of that interpretation. Just like Palikot was insane in 2011, When he asked about the ties of 3 ministers to the Platform's government with Opus Dei.
Who else from the Polish political elite belongs to a secret association, built like a extremist Catholic masonry? Senator elected from the list of the 3rd Road and erstwhile Minister of Culture Kazimierz Ujazdowski, erstwhile Deputy Minister of Culture from the PiS, and formerly presenter of Polsat Jarosław Sellin, erstwhile Minister of Transport Jerzy Polaczek, erstwhile Minister of Communications Maciej Srebro, erstwhile president of the Board of Bank Pekao S.A. Leszek Skiba, erstwhile president of the State abroad Investment Agency Adam Pawłowicz. The boy of president of the ultimate Chamber of Control and Confederacy policies Jakub Banaś was a associate for 15 years before he decided to leave.
Other politicians, specified as Patryk Jaka, did not decide to celibate and join the elite of numeraries, but were educated at universities funded by the organization – e.g. in the Barcelona Business School IESE. Others, like Radosław Sikorski and Henryk Bochniarz, send their children to opusdeia schools. Opus Dei schools force parents to buy shares, which brought Once upon Sikorski's head any problems. Given that it has been 15 years since the quoted article “Diary”, it can be assumed that another well-known postgraduate of the organisation is Alexander Sikorski, known for advising the fresh hope of KO, Alexander Wiśniewska. The intellectual-institutional continuity of the Polish right will so be preserved.
Most of this list is information he collected in the article “Gazeta Wyborcza” quoted earlier, Piotr Głuchowski. The writer did not hear these names from Father Moszoro – he simply presented him with his own list, from which the Head of the Works was to remove people who had no connection with the organization. In another words – confirmed info. Given that according to various estimates concerning members of Opus Dei in Poland their number is little than a thousand, the concentration of people holding the highest positions in the country and recruiting from this narrow group is impressive.
Alternative to Ordo Iuris
His view of Opus Dei's function in Polish politics He's been briefing us on the Galloping Major: “Rzeplinski, Kosiniak, Hołownia or Zoll do not practice the conservatism of a combatant like the 1 in Pisa. They know that Ordo Iuris is loud, but it is easy to organize against him symbolically. It is harder to organize against the influence of the silent Opus Dei.” Silent conservatism of an alternate version of Ordo Iuris (about which it is worth mentioning, it cannot be written that it accepts money from Russia) – does it not sound appetizing?
And yet, in my opinion, if an organization with an undisclosed structure, connections and based on an oral declaration of obedience turns out to have so much influence that 1 of its members in erstwhile governments distributed millions under the Justice Fund (which, by the way, frequently went to people associated with Opus Dei – although I remind you that most of the links between franchised associations and foundations cannot be traced) and the another is vice-president of the largest club present and theoretically entirely opposition to the predecessors of power, This case is at least suitable for a committee of inquiry. Even if it is “hard to organize” against octopus.
If we look at the events of the past weeks, Romana Giertych is sometimes considered as a tail spinning Donald Tuski – especially after the vote on the Law on Abortion Assistance, and it is known to be a key subject for Catholic lobbying organizations. In this context, it seems even more crucial to ask whether, even after the withdrawal of Marcin Romanowski, 1 of Opus Dei's best known soldiers, from the political front line, the individual power of Catholic radicals and their influence on the functioning of the Polish state, including the law they constitute, can be limited.
