INTRODUCTION

Mr. Lee Penn, of False Dawn (1) fame, has sent the following communication to a number of professional anti-Cult Internet Sites. We thought its contents would be of assistance to our readership, thus, with his permission, we are reproducing the entire text of his communication below.


Lee Penn's Communication

I am sending you this e-mail to offer you new information about Opus Dei, a movement that I believe to be a spiritually hazardous cult within the Catholic Church.

By way of introduction: I am a California-based journalist, and have been writing about religious and cultural affairs from an orthodox Catholic perspective since 1998. My work has appeared in New Oxford Review (Catholic), the Journal of the Spiritual Counterfeits Project (an Evangelical anti-cult ministry), The Christian Challenge (Anglican), and Touchstone (ecumenical, traditionalist).

Here are some stories that you may quote and link:

I did a 2- part series on Opus Dei for the Journal of the Spiritual Counterfeits Project (SCP) in the fall of 2005 and the spring of 2006.


1.  The first part (fall 2005) of the SCP series is on the Net, in its entirety, at this link:





2.  The second part of the SCP story (spring 2006) is not on the Net; it exists only as a hard copy story published in the magazine.





3.  Cardinal Bernard Law, formerly the Archbishop of Boston, never faced any Church punishment for his role in the pederasty scandal coverup. Instead, he got a cushy retirement post in Rome, as Archpriest of one of the Church's most prestigious basilicas - and he still is a member of Church departments that are involved in selecting bishops and setting Vatican policy.



4.  To read more about my background as a journalist, go to this page, a bio sketch on the web site for my book, False Dawn:



5.  The book, False Dawn: The United Religions Initiative, Globalism, and the Quest for a One-World Religion, was published in 2005 by Sophia Perennis. It criticizes the interfaith movement, the New Age movement, and totalitarian forms of globalism. As part of its critique of the New Age movement and other anti-Christian movements, False Dawn debunks Wicca, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, Theosophy, and the best-selling writings of Neale Donald Walsch (author of the Conversations With God books).



6.  The final chapter of False Dawn, which warns against extreme-right utopianism (including the ideology of Opus Dei) is on-line here:



7.  False Dawn is available in several ways:



8.  Other critiques of Opus Dei may be found at:







Published on January 26, 2007