User:Alecmconroy/Controversies about Opus Dei

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Early Controversies?

 * Specific Controversies ***

Support for Hitler

 * Felzmann quotes


 * Prelate denial
 * saint for our times
 * Ex-member

Secretivity

 * Escriva quotes
 * Constitution quotes.


 * Privacy

High controlling

 * Forbidden Books
 * Mail
 * Contact with families


 * Emphasis on personal freedom
 * Estrangement is appropriate

Mortification

 * Mortification as practiced by numeraries
 * Mortification as practiced by Escriva


 * Other saints
 * Safe, controlled

Role of women

 * Female clergy / prelate
 * Numerary assistants


 * "different one"
 * women lead women's branch

Critics as unreliable and biased?

 * Anti-cult Crusaders

Criticism as religious bias

 * Jesuits & liberal catholics as jealous
 * Critics as secularists