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Their Kingdom Come: Inside the Secret World of Opus Dei [Hardcover]

Robert Hutchison
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  • Hardcover: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Doubleday (4 Sep 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0385404964
  • ISBN-13: 978-0385404969
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.6 x 4.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,582,018 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Founded in Spain in 1928, the fundamentalist Roman Catholic sect, Opus Dei, today has more than 80,000 members throughout the world. It is larger and more powerful than the Jesuits, and more secretive than the ministry within the Vatican known as The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, whose policies it helps to shape. Based on several years of research, this book sets out to show that Opus Dei now appears to be out of control. The story it tells involves international intrigue and a parade of corpses that includes a pope and a cardinal, several bankers, and a former Franco minister. Meanwhile, Opus Dei's strategists in Rome and Vienna prepare for Christianity's next Crusade against Islam. The author won four National Business Writing Awards for newspaper articles in Canada, and has written four previous non-fiction books on a variety of subjects.

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To the outside world, Opus Dei’s stated intention is ‘to remind all people that they are called to holiness, especially through work and ordinary life’. But with an elite membership of 80,000 and tentacles reaching around the globe, this secretive sect within the Catholic Church has far greater potential influence. In recent years it has come under criticism from within the Catholic Church and from authorities in the countries where it operates, revealing a more sinister intention: to confront Islam on the world’s spiritual battlefields, by whatever means necessary. Their Kingdom Come demonstrates how Opus Dei has forged an unholy alliance with the Mafia, secular powerbrokers and highly placed prelates, with the result that Christian values are being threatened by the malign influences of power politics and big money. Opus Dei’s command council runs an immense intelligence network and a vast multinational conglomerate, preparing for what the organisation regard as Christendom’s inevitable showdown with radical Islam --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
flawed 3 Nov 2010
Format:Paperback
I've read Allen Jr book on Opus Dei and I find it immensely better written and easier to understand than this book. I'm no economist and that's probably why I did not understand very well all the machinations Hutchinson describes behind Opus Dei's economic power. I learnt quite a few things about Vatican Politics, but again the author's style makes reading very difficult.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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This is an excellent book - superbly researched and written. I would imagine that any previous negative reviews were submitted by Opus Dei sympathizers. That's fine, of course. Everyone has the right to their own opinion. It is therefore my opinion that anyone who is interested in the machinations of the Vatican and the Roman Catholic Church should buy this book and digest it thoroughly.
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This is an excellent book - superbly researched and written. I would imagine that any previous negative reviews were submitted by Opus Dei sympathizers. That's fine, of course. Everyone has the right to their own opinion. It is therefore my opinion that anyone who is interested in the machinations of the Vatican and the Roman Catholic Church should buy this book and digest it thoroughly.
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