“If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.”
----from “The Murder at the Vicarage” by Agatha Christie
I was reading the Restoring DC Catholicism blog and saw a post about Randy Engel's latest article. Miss/Mrs.(?) Engel is the author of the The Rite of Sodomy — Homosexuality and the Roman Catholic Church, and she is as close to the fictional Miss Marple as you’ll find in Catholics circles. In the Christie novels the villains never gave Miss Marple any thought right up until the moment she connects the dots for everyone. Randy Engel has been an investigative journalist for nearly five decades and now with her long article, "All the Men Behind the Opus Dei Curtain, ” she's doggedly connected a very messy pile of dots. If you’ve ever spent money on Church Militant TV, Fr. Paul Nicholson or to E. Michael Jones you need to read this. If you are curious as to why even some of the most gentle and fair minded Catholics get apopletic about Opus Dei, you need to read this. It is not a defense of Michael Voris but an assessment of some things in and left out of the book E. Michael Jones wrote about him last year. It's an unnerving article that will probably be ignored by most of Catholic blogland and that is too bad. One thing I don't understand is this: many devout Catholics if asked about Opus Dei will say that while they don't necessarily want to join it, St. John Paul II embraced it and that's good enough for them. If CMTV is/was a media apostolate of OD why hide it?
PS
I wrote to Miss Engel with Oakes's questions and a couple of my own. I don't know if the email address I found is still active or how often she checks it but hopefully she'll get back to me.
PS
I wrote to Miss Engel with Oakes's questions and a couple of my own. I don't know if the email address I found is still active or how often she checks it but hopefully she'll get back to me.