Their Kingdom Come: Inside the Secret World of Opus Dei - Brossura

Hutchison, Robert

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0552167320 ISBN 13: 9780552167321

Casa editrice: Corgi, 2012

Riassunto

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 regards as Christendom's inevitable showdown with radical Islam...

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Descrizione del libro

Inside the secret world of Opus Dei.

L'autore

Robert A. Hutchison was born in Canada and studied at McGill University in Montreal. He was a correspondent for the London Sunday and Daily Telegraph, and his articles for the Toronto Financial Post won him four National Business Writing Awards. He is the author of four other investigative non-fiction books covering a range of subjects: Vesco, Off the Books, Juggernaut and In the Tracks of the Yeti. For the past thirty years he has lived in Switzerland.

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• Editore: Corgi
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0552167320
• ISBN 13: 9780552167321
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 576