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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.