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00:00In 2003, The Da Vinci Code took the world by storm.
00:16It was the book everybody was talking about.
00:19Copies flew off the bookshelves at a record pace, and it soared to the top of every bestseller
00:24list.
00:25It was a novel that became a cultural phenomenon, with its claim that everything you ever learned
00:30about Christianity is false, and that the church had covered up its lies through a shadowy
00:35organization known as Opus Dei.
00:39And while it was found in the fiction section, it was not your ordinary novel.
00:43The Da Vinci Code begins with a fact page, which calls Opus Dei a sect known for dangerous
00:48practices, brainwashing, and wealth.
00:51And in its pages, it also accuses the group of being repressive of women.
00:56And now, The Da Vinci Code has many asking, what is the real Opus Dei?
01:02A good side of The Da Vinci Code furor is that there was a lot of interest in saying,
01:07what is the real Opus Dei?
01:08They have used this whole brouhaha about The Da Vinci Code as a very powerful teaching
01:13moment.
01:14My personal experience has been that Opus Dei is in fact not elitist at all.
01:19We are not the elite.
01:20You will see people in Opus Dei all over the world, in every country, among every people.
01:25Opus Dei is always pushing you to step out of your comfort zone.
01:28As a woman, it has really empowered me.
01:30Cécile Marie, I think, took his clues from Jesus Christ, who was a pro-woman.
01:35Negative impressions, myths, and stereotypes about Opus Dei are not just negative impressions
01:40of Opus Dei.
01:41They become negative impressions of the entire Roman Catholic Church, which means that Opus
01:45Dei has a responsibility to the entire Catholic community to make sure that the world does
01:50not believe that there is a bizarre, cult-like, evil organism metastasizing at the heart of
01:56the Catholic Church.