Is Project 2025 Tied to the Radical Group Opus Dei?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 27 July 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Heritage Foundation president, Kevin Roberts who created the authoritarian Project 2025 has been reported to have frequented Opus Dei headquarters in Washington DC. Texas police try to arrest a librarian for checking out a civil rights book! Is this the world we want to live in?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman Program. |
| 0:17.0 | Kevin Roberts is the architect of Project 2025. |
| 0:20.0 | He's the head of the Heritage Foundation. He's the guy who said that this will be the second |
| 0:25.6 | American Revolution and it will be peaceful if the liberals or if the left allows it. In other words, |
| 0:31.9 | they're willing to use violence. But it turns out that there's a little |
| 0:35.5 | more to Kevin Roberts than we knew about. You probably heard of Opus Day, Opus D.E. |
| 0:41.0 | Opus Day is a radical Catholic group. They're international. They are |
| 0:47.8 | rapidly anti-abortion, anti-birth control, women should have basically no power. |
| 0:56.3 | No woman can be a priest, no woman can serve, you know, in any position of power, real power in their organization or frankly in the Catholic |
| 1:06.1 | Church. |
| 1:07.6 | And this is one of the most right-wing extremist groups in fact |
| 1:14.0 | Pope John Paul II |
| 1:15.9 | uh... the pope who invited louise and i to to to Italy to to hang out with him for |
| 1:20.8 | a little celebration it was it was quite an event back in 1999. He was the guy who basically |
| 1:26.6 | blessed them. And now Pope Francis, who is a lot more liberal, has cut back on some of their powers and authorities and whatnot. |
| 1:37.0 | Excuse me. |
| 1:40.0 | But it turns out that Kevin Roberts is a member of Opus Day, this secretive radical Catholic group. |
| 1:47.0 | They run something called the Catholic Information Center on K Street in Washington, D.C. |
| 1:52.0 | It's headed by an Opus Day priest. Kevin Roberts says he goes |
| 1:55.5 | on a weekly basis for mass and formation, which is, the formation is like religious guidance |
| 2:01.4 | and teachings. |
| 2:07.0 | This is a over in the Guardian, Rachel Lying Gang wrote a great piece about this. |
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