mungai na cardinal, be at peace and stand firm to defend any faith or lack of it. Thats why i accept the Helicopter comedy as well as the seven virgins waiting for the suicide bombers.

since i am not a member i do not know why men sleep on the floor on a weekly basis, However women sleep on boards laid on mattresses every night.

I also do not know why Men are allowed to smoke but women are forbidden. i hear women can never attend baptisms nor be be bridesmaids.

The secrecy of Opus is compounded by Article 12 of the Statutes of Opus: “(1) no papers or books are to be published as belonging to Opus.” (pg 47).

Welcome to the world of mystery; when you talk of Catholism it’s not just Opus Dei that it’s shrouded with mystery. Catholism itself is one big lie. I was once a catholic and having wondered why we do this and that, I decided to do a little research on the church and what I discovered made me wonder. Many good people are caught up in this false doctrine. Their intention is well meaning, but they were deceived by the “sleight of men”. These men like most who are deceived, believe what they believe because they were raised up in a particular religion. Majority of the Catholics know nothing of what’s going on. Deception of faith is not new in any case it is as old as mankind. For instance, in the book of genesis focus on the story of Cush-grandson of Noah, architect of Tower of Babel. Semiramis-wife of Cush, Queen of Babylon, mother of Nimrod and Tammuz. Nimrod-son and husband of Semiramis, builder of Babylon. Nimrod developed astrology, and laid the foundations for black and white witchcraft. Shem (Cush's great uncle, Noah's son, and a righteous man), appalled by his nephew's evil deeds, killed Nimrod. Before his death, Nimrod married and impregnated his mother Semiramis. After Nimrod was slain, Semiramis convinced the people of Babylon that Nimrod was a god (the sun god Baal), and that she was a goddess (the Queen of Heaven). ‘Note today the Mary of the catholic church is called the queen of heaven’. However, God's condemned the Queen of Heaven (Jer 7:18, 44:17-19, 44:25). Semiramis developed the Satanic religion of Baal worship, including confession (for blackmail and public fear), secret societies (prefiguring Masonry, Mormonism, Jesuits, and the Illuminati), and the idea that she, as the religious leader, was the only medium to God (prefiguring the Pope). Idols appeared featuring mother Semiramis and baby Nimrod (prefiguring the Virgin Mary and Baby Jesus); her symbol was the moon (Isis), and Nimrod's was the sun (Horus, Baal, Sol). Semiramis promoted baby sacrifices and celibacy for priests, foreshadowing Roman Catholicism. Semiramis bore another child (by her son Nimrod, while claiming she was a virgin) named Tammuz, who she maintained was the reincarnation of Nimrod (Baal) (Genesis 3:15) the promised seed of the Woman. This was the foundation of the virgin mother with child archetype that Satan used to corrupt many world religions.
Tammuz was later killed and then Ishtar-Semiramis said that he had become part of the sun three days later, as arising from the death and becoming a god. Tammuz, in the Babylonian religion, is the son of god. Tammuz rose into the sky in the clouds, and thus the pagan priests of Babylonian commenced his worship through astrology (Genesis 3:15.). From Babylon this worship of the Mother and the Child spread to the four corners of the earth. In Egypt, Semiramis became Isis, and Nimrod became Horus (as a child) and Osiris as an adult (the pyramid eye of Freemasonry is the "eye of Osiris"). Sun worship dominated Egypt. Egyptian priests practiced "transubstantiation", claiming to be able to transfer the sun god Osiris into a circular wafer. In rituals prefiguring Catholic Mass, the faithful then ate the "body" of their god to nourish their souls. Transubstantiation is currently an accepted practice in the Roman Catholic and is defined in their Liturgy Dictionary p. 624 as; "That teaching of the Church which signifies the conversion or complete change of the substance of bread and wine into the substance of Christ's Body and Blood." See also the catechism of the Catholic Church; “1373 and 1377 – he (Christ) is present…most especially in the Eucharistic species.” “1413 – By the consecration the transubstantiation of the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ is brought about. Under the consecrated species of bread and wine Christ himself, living and glorious, is present in a true, real and substantial manner: his Body and his Blood, with his soul and his divinity”- declaimed by the council of Trent: DS 1640:1651. The letters IHS on the sun-shaped wafers stood for Isis, Horus, Seb (you will see these in all Roman Catholics churches just visit any, ask a catholic what they mean and you see they have no idea).
After Christ's death and resurrection, Satan, using Gnostics in Alexandria, Egypt, corrupted the Biblical scriptures, playing down the deity of Jesus and adding the Apocrypha. As the Roman Empire was falling, Constantine claimed the throne. Constantine then took over the Roman government and issued the Edict of Milan, a decree of tolerance for Christians, "baptized" his troops, and presided as the first Summus Pontifex (the official title of the Pope). The events that revived pagan worship occurred mostly in the third century. Constantine and the council of Nicaea became more implicated in high political decisions of Europe and controlling all military matters. His policy was to find a formula on which the largest possible number could agree and be compelled under him. He was the architect of the current Roman Catholic mass. Constantine ordered Eusebius, the Bishop of Caesarea, to have fifty Bibles assembled. Although true Christians had assembled the correct Word of God in Antioch, Syria, Eusebius, he chose the corrupted Alexandrian texts from Egypt, which had been altered by the Gnostic scholar Origen under Satan's guidance. These Bibles were the foundation of the Roman Catholic Church. The Vatican later created the Latin Vulgate from the original fifty, and all other versions were outlawed. Ever noticed that Catholics do not use the normal bible? In Kenya they use the African bible which is the corrupted version. Many areas are changed including the Ten Commandments. For instance, the line reading ‘thou shall not make yourself grave images …..’ is deleted. Instead the 9th is split into two to maintain the ten.
Roman Catholicism transferred Baal worship into an already corrupted Christianity. The icon of the virgin mother and child with halos (representing the sun), Mary as the queen of heaven, confessions, wafer worship, transubstantiation, and priests as exclusive mediators of God were all derived from the Satanic Babylonian religion. Roman Catholicism became a mixture of witchcraft, Judaism, paganism, and perverted Christianity. Witches thrived and were ordained by the Vatican. Meanwhile, true Christians spread the word that the Vatican was the Whore of Babylon (of the Book of Revelation). Rome was outraged, and staged the Holy Inquisition, torturing and murdering "heretics" to eliminate both Christians and Jews, and to fill the coffers of the church.
The Opus Dei, Jesuits order and others were started to fight a Jihad aimed at curbing the spread of true Christianity. The Vatican was shaken as Protestantism spreads rapidly through Europe. In order to stamp out the spiritual rebellion, Pope Paul III ordered Ignatius de Loyola to found the Order of Jesuits, which would act as the intelligentsia and secret militia of the Vatican. Loyola had already founded the occult Illuminati, which he then placed under the umbrella of the Vatican. The secret satanic organization later became the most important branch of the Jesuit order, controlling the world economy, international banking, military forces, witchcraft, and the world religions. Jesuits ("the militia of the popes") used witchcraft, meditation (trances), hypnosis, and speaking in tongues to infiltrate and destroy the Bible-believing Protestant church. To this day, the Superior General of the Jesuits, "the Black Pope", is the mysterious man behind the Pope; it is he who has the ultimate power in the Vatican. The Jesuits helped develop many cults: Freemasons, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Science, and many others, to serve the interests of the Vatican. They staged campaigns to rid Europe of Bible-believing Christians, first in France, then in England (by secretly trying to substitute the corrupted Alexandrian Bible for the English translation). The bait and switch plot failed, as King James successfully translated the Word of God (the Antioch manuscripts) into his English version-to this day the only uncorrupted text. In the modern world, the Vatican is responsible for all Satanic Bible versions based on the corrupted Alexandrian Gnostic manuscripts.
So Baal worship (Sun god religion of ancient Babylon) in the guise of Christianity prevailed. The communion wafer of Roman Catholic mass ("wafer god", "death cookie") is based on the Egyptian ritual of transubstantiation, in which the temple priests would magically transform the sun-shaped wafers into the "body" of Horus, and the worshippers would then "eat" their sun god (derived from Baal). Today's Catholic wafers are imprinted with the letters IHS, which stands for Isis, Horus and Seb; the Egyptian gods. The crucifix was created by Semiramis, in honor of her son Tammuz, and is a symbol of death and the occult. "Behind the crucifix are strong demonic forces giving out tremendous power, as depicted in vampire movies". Mary worship, and the icon of the virgin with child is derived from the image of Semiramis (the "Queen of Heaven") and her baby Tammuz (Baal), by Nimrod. This archetypal icon can be traced to most world religions, as evidence of Satan's covert religious influence.
Osiris, Isis, Obelisk, Pillars and the Great Sex Act; Many studies of Osiris and Isis takes one back into Freemasonry. There are twin pillars that are so important to Freemasonry’s faith. These are Boaz and Jachin. Their true meaning is as follows; "The two pillars ... represent two imaginary columns, supposed to be placed ... to support the heavens. One is called Boaz, and indicates Osiris, or the sun, the other is called Jachin and designates Isis, they symbolize both the earth and its productions, and the moon. Another name for a four-sided pillar is the obelisk. Pillars have always been worshipped as gods. In Egypt, the obelisks stood for the sun god. In fact, in [the Masonic book], 'Numbers: Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues', you find that the lingam (the male sex organ) was an upright pillar. The Sun was to be regarded as the male generative power of nature. The Sun God was certainly the generator of life, light and heat, the male principle, and this was symbolically represented by the Phallus the most frequent illustration was of a pillar set up in the center of a circle."
* The Sun God is the male shaft -- the phallus -- and is represented by an obelisk. Osiris is the Sun God
* The Universal Mother is the female, represented by the circle. Isis is this Mother figure.
* To represent the Great Sex Act between Osiris and Isis, you place the phallic obelisk within the middle of the circle! The results are the crops of the fields in Nature and the Divine Child in theology!
In Satanism, the result of this Great Sex Act between Osiris and Isis is the continual birth of the Divine Child, Horus! Thus, you can see why Roman Catholicism has the phallic obelisk sitting in the middle of the circle -- otherwise known as the 8-Fold Path To Enlightenment -- in the midst of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, In the mind of the Adepts of the Roman Catholic Mysteries, Osiris and Isis are permanently having sex in St. Peter's Basilica! Since theology is the only matter in which the Vatican is interested, the Divine Child is symbolically represented as being born from the Great Sex Act by the Sun God and the Universal Mother. In Roman Catholic Mysteries, the roles of Osiris, Isis, and Horus, the Divine Child, are as follows:
* Osiris - Sun God - The Pope
* Isis - Universal Mother, Virgin Mother -- Virgin Mary
* Horus -- Divine Child -- "Jesus"
The result is the continual birth of the Divine Child just as this pagan illustration demonstrates! Since the Roman Catholic Mass continually sacrifices "Jesus" on the Cross anew, it is logical he would have to be continually reborn! You see, in every Mass, Jesus is mystically slain; in order to gain another mystic sacrifice, the Adepts of this Satanic system have to create a mystical way in which they can continually give birth to another "Jesus", so they can slay him in a future Mass! This thinking is not our way of thinking, but it is the way Satanists think. In order to comprehend why a Celibate-driven mystic church has a Satanic symbol of the Great Sex Act sitting in St. Peter's Basilica, you have to understand how they think. In St. Peter's Basilica, you have the two elements required:
* Osiris - Sun God - The Pope - Symbolized by the obelisk
* Isis - Universal Mother, Virgin Mother -- Virgin Mary - Symbolized by the Circle, the "8-Fold Path of Enlightenment"
Closer home visit the Holy Family Basilica and appreciate resemblance of the same act. In the center of the square in front of the church in a tall pillar which to an ignorant eye it houses the church bell. The positioning is in such a way that past noon when the sun is headed west the pillar casts its shadow directly into the church through the main door. I think you don’t need further help to relate this to the described act.

Well lisaox whatever I said could be nyokonyoko as you put it but you will agree with me that it’s not something I made up. Its all documented history just check it out. When you look at the Jesuits/Superior General of the Society of Jesus for instance there is enormous literature on their lives right from the very first one; Ignatius of Loyola (April 19, 1541-July 31, 1556) to the current BLACK POPE Adolfo Nicolás (January 19, 2008-to date) currently the most powerful figure in the Catholic church (living in Spain). So its not the same thing being seen different is just a matter of asking yourself why is the church teaching this yet the Holy Bible says a different thing? It’s called man made doctrine…..why would the church teach that when you die you go to ‘purgatory’ then those living can do penance for you to be forgiven and finally enter heaven? It’s a lie just read your bible!!!! Why would they tell us that Mary ascended to heaven like Christ ‘the Assumption of Mary’ which is not in the Bible. The Catholic church in Umoja is named after this lie. Where does the Bible say that Mary was born devoid of the original sin….the doctrine of the ‘Immaculate Conception of Mary???’ its all lies upon lies…do your research don’t just follow blindly!!

I am happy not many Catholics were ready to justify their misguided Baal worship….I could have educated them some more at the expense of being unpopular as Lolest! puts it

Well, i do not know much of the history of religions.... and i know there are some things i can not explain in catholicism, but dude, if Mary and Jesus were creations of catholic, don't the protestants also believe these same individuals exist or at least existed.... and by the way, Muslims also believe in the mystery birth of Jesus? Are you also saying that the protestants do not believe that Jesus was born in a mysterious way (as in, he has no earthly father) or do protestants believe that he was a biological child of Joseph? On the sacrament, are you aware that even the protestants have their "sacraments" or whatever it is? I thought it symbolized the last supper and it is in the last supper that Jesus said that "the bread is his body".... or does it mean something totally different with protestants?

Have you not known, have you not heard? Protestantism is dead! Its finished, kaput, kabisa! And there is none but the Society of Jesus to thank for that.

Look, all the 'prostestants' are falling over themselves, some in a most comical fashion, trooping back to mater ekklesia.

sample:
a) Anglicans have remodeled their church in London to be like the one in Rome.
b) Lutherans have offered copious apologies for Martin Luthers' less-than-polite indiscretions.
c) etc

So there is no protestant church, save one 'sect' (for that is what it is called nowadays) in the true sense of the word 'protestant'. And that 'sect' is the final loose end left for the Society of Jesus to tie up. More on that later.

So it is hardly surprising that there is no difference between 'protestants' and Catholics. There should be not, after all, 'we define that the Holy Apostolic See and the Roman Pontiff holds the primacy over the whole world.' The Most Holy Councils. Vol 3 col 1167.

Anyway, back to Opus Dei, that lady is a prime example of what good Catholics should be. After internalising the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola, all Catholics should be exactly like that, serving the Successor of Peter, perinde ac cadavre . In the manner of a corpse.

Those who mentioned 'brainwashing' or lack of brains thereof, were on to something they were not even aware of.

If one is a catholic and has not got to that stage, then one is obviously failing in his faith. Maybe one should attend the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome if Strathmore university is not hacking it so that one can '.. serve as a soldier of God beneath the banner of the cross and to serve the lord alone and the church his spouse, under the Roman pontiff, the vicar of christ on earth' - Apostolic Letter Exposcit Debitum 21 July 1550.

am also lost, @yesu wetu, tafadhali fafanua

John 20:22

@anasazi,
Should be verse 23: NIV: If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven."

King james version: Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained