Summary
Look, said the BBC, the characters' membership of Opus Dei was 'not necessarily contemporaneous with their misdeeds' and see, there were other wicked characters who were not members of Opus Dei. But, we replied, unlike the other malefactors (the banks, for example, are called 'BICF' and 'Levy Goldenthal'), Opus Dei is actually named. Why not call it, say, Civitas Dei, Opera Maleficium, Magnus Frater?
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The Beeb Behaved Like a Da Vinci Code Villain
The last time Opus Dei was portrayed as a murderous, self-flagellating, power-hungry secret society of monstrous hypocrites was -- you may remember -- in The Da Vinci Code, first in the novel, then in the film starring Tom Hanks. Millions read the book, millions saw the film, millions decided that we were the personification of evil.
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