JD Vance and the Fascists of Opus Dei
There is a global Christian Nationalist cult born in Fascist Spain with the mission of taking over the world by gaining control over politicians and business owners.
JD Vance is a part of this cult’s network of influence.
If Donald Trump wins the 2024 election but cannot serve out his term, JD Vance will become President of the United States.
Do you see where this is heading?
Opus Dei emerged as a partner of Spanish fascism.
At around the same time that Benito Mussolini cultivated his fascist movement in Italy and Adolf Hitler organized the Nazis in Germany, Francisco Franco introduced fascism to Spain.
Franco’s fascists hated democracy, progressive social values, and secular values of education and permanent empowerment. They wanted to replace liberal society with an authoritarian regime centered around the adulation of a few leaders, taking society back to the tradition of extreme Christian power established centuries before under the Spanish Inquisition.
It was in this context that the Catholic secret society Opus Dei was organized. Opus Dei was a pro-fascist Catholic organization that emulated the cruel high-control religious authoritarianism of the fascist government.
At the time, the Catholic Church in Spain was for all practical purposes an arm of the fascist government. Catholic priests and their followers were given the power to force Catholic ideology and worship onto all citizens of Spain, and to act as spies for the fascist authorities, using the rite of confession to gather information about political dissidents that was reported to the fascist police.
The mixture of Christianity with the national government was at the foundation of fascism in Spain. This policy was referred to as National Catholicism. As the name suggests, fascist National Catholicism was almost identical in its goals to what we are now experiencing in the United States as Christian Nationalism.
Under Franco’s fascist regime, atheists, liberals, LGBTQ+ people, and anyone who resisted the Christian Nationalist government faced brutal repression, including torture and execution. Many of the victims were buried in mass graves. During its rule, this Christian Nationalist government in fascist Spain was responsible for the deaths of one out of every thirty citizens.
These violent atrocities took place with the assistance of the Catholic Church in Spain. All the while, Opus Dei applauded the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
Opus Dei Continues to Promote Christian Nationalist Facsism Today.
Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini were killed during World War II. Francisco Franco’s fascists, however, remained in power until 1975. Opus Dei collaborated with the fascists of Spain for that entire time.
What’s more, Opus Dei used their privileged position under the Christian Nationalism of fascism to make itself wealthy. As detailed in Opus, a new book by Gareth Gore, Opus Dei engaged in a management takeover of the Spanish bank Banco Popular, and began siphoning off massive amounts of money to fund Christian Nationalist projects around the world, including in the United States. This theft of funds continued until 2017, when Banco Popular collapsed.
Using the money from Banco Popular, Opus Dei set up indoctrination centers across the globe, recruiting members who took oaths to help the organization take over the world, replacing democratic governments with Christian dictatorships. These centers also served as hubs for an international network of human trafficking, luring young girls to become enslaved workers who were transported across national borders to engage in grueling physical labor with no financial compensation and no hope of escape.
While Opus Dei degrades women, it seeks recruits from among the most wealthy and politically connected people in the world to create a Christian Nationalist cult of power.
The term “cult” carries significant negative connotations. It is not lightly that this term is used to describe Opus Dei. The following are among the reasons that Opus Dei has been designated as a cult:
Opus Dei uses religion to control the most intimate details of its members’ lives
Opus Dei isolates members from their families and friends
Opus Dei uses routines of physical and mental torture to maintain the psychological vulnerability of its members
Opus Dei targets emotionally vulnerable people, including children, for psychologically manipulative recruiting techniques
Opus Dei initiates members through an “enslavement” ritual
Opus Dei maintains an international network for trafficking enslaved women who serve its elite members
Opus Dei demands absolute obedience from its members
Opus Dei conducts surveillance of its members in order to maintain control of them
Opus Dei keeps its activities secret from the world, and from most of its own members
Opus Dei teaches an ideology of absolute world domination
Opus Dei harms others in order to gain power for itself
What Does This Have to Do with JD Vance?
For decades, Opus Dei has worked to gain control of the government of the United States, seeking to transform American democracy into a Christian theocracy. The nomination of JD Vance as the vice-presidential nominee under Donald Trump has been one of Opus Dei’s greatest successes in this project.
It is not at all clear whether JD Vance is an actual member of Opus Dei. Opus Dei is secretive about its membership and encourages its members to lie about belonging to Opus Dei.
What is clear is that JD Vance is strongly affiliated with Opus Dei. JD Vance’s extreme version of Catholicism is ideologically in perfect sync with Opus Dei. JD Vance works with and has the support of Opus Dei’s top advocates in Washington D.C.
Leonard Leo, for example, is a prominent financial supporter of the Catholic Information Center, an Opus Dei indoctrination center in Washington D.C. that seeks to recruit powerful American politicians to become members or allies of Opus Dei. Leonard Leo has been one of JD Vance’s primary political mentors in Washington D.C., providing Vance with strategic, tactical, and networking assistance as well as extensive financial support. Leonard Leo has also been instrumental, as head of the Federalist Society, in placing several Christian Nationalist judges on the US Supreme Court who are endorsed by Opus Dei.
Another core political ally of JD Vance has been Kevin Roberts, the Heritage Foundation leader who was responsible for coordinating the creation of Project 2025, a fascist blueprint explaining how Donald Trump will begin to replace American democracy with Christian Nationalist fascism in the first few days of his presidency, if elected in 2024. Kevin Roberts attends weekly meetings at the Catholic Information Center for indoctrination with an Opus Dei priest to ensure his ideological alignment with the organization’s Christian Nationalist agenda.
Whether or not JD Vance is an official, initiated member of Opus Dei, he is in contact with the group’s operatives in Washington D.C. and is working to advance their radical fascist agenda.
Opus Dei is Only One Part of a Larger Movement of Christian Nationalist Fascism
It’s important to keep the role of Opus Dei in American politics in perspective. Most Catholics are not directly associated with Opus Dei. Some Catholics are liberals, and don’t support Christian Nationalism.
What’s more, while radical Catholicism such as what is found within Opus Dei is an important element of Christian Nationalist fascism in the United States, many Christian Nationalists in the USA are not Catholic. Protestant Christian organizations are every bit as extreme and active in Christian Nationalism as are Catholic groups.
Opus Dei has earned special notoriety because of its international scale, and its involvement in the enslavement of women and the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse of children. Opus Dei is also, frankly, flamoyantly bizarre. Its core of numerary members are required to whip themselves bloody several times a week, to frequently wear special devices under their clothes that feature spikes that painfully pierce their skin, and to sleep on hard wooden boards in order to prove their obedience to the power of Opus Dei.
Opus Dei is powerful, but it is not a central authority that controls all of the advancement of dangerous Christian Nationalist ideology in the United States. JD Vance’s connections with Opus Dei are alarming, but JD Vance is also connected with many bizarre and unhinged Protestant Christian Nationalist extremists through Donald Trump, as documented in the book Donald Trump’s Army of God.
Americans are already voting in the 2024 presidential election. In one week and one day, voting will be complete, although it may take weeks, or even months, before a winner of the election is firmly settled.
Whatever happens next will be determined not by the overall opinions of the American people. It will be determined by those Americans who have the discipline to participate in the political process, not just by voting, but by volunteering with the campaigns and causes that represent their beliefs.
As the next stage of American history unfolds, it will be essential to understand the history of Christian Nationalist organizations, including Opus Dei. By understanding what these groups believe, and how they operate, we will become better able to defend democracy in the future.