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January 11, 2005

Controversial Catholic group is given care of parish church
By Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent



OPUS DEI, the conservative Roman Catholic organisation that counts Ruth Kelly, the Education Secretary, among its members, has been given its first parish in Britain since it was founded in 1928.
Cardinal Cormac Murphy- O’Connor, the Archbishop of Westminster, is to hand over pastoral care of St Thomas More church, Swiss Cottage, to Father Gerard Sheehan, an Opus Dei priest.

Father Sheehan is one of 17 priests in Britain who work for the Opus Dei organisation. None of the others is a parish priest although Father Sheehan is local deanery secretary for the Westminster archdiocese and regularly hears confessions at Westminster Cathedral and St James’ Spanish Place.

He will take over at Easter from Father Ian Dickie, who is to be moved to another parish.

The decision by Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor to entrust the parish of 500 souls and their 1968 red-brick church to Opus Dei partly indicates that the organisation has “come of age” and is achieving mainstream respectability within the Catholic Church in Britain.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1434918,00.htm

OPUS DEI members were used by Margaret Thatcher to gag the 1986 arrest of the late Robert Maxwell MP in a Children of God brothel in Hampstead, where 4 kids under the age of five were rapes, tortured and then murdered. In a house that had previously belonged to Thatcher's family.

OPUS DEI was subsequently banned from this area of North London. But now is flourishing under Poodle's personal approval.

As for Ruth Kelly, cited above, she is another Tory plant. SHe is the bastard daughter of Ann Widdecombe, Tory MP:

Ruth Kelly MP: