BBC rejects Opus Dei complaint

The BBC Trust has rejected complaints from Opus Dei that episodes of Waking the Dead portrayed a “negative and false” view of the shady Catholic organisation.

This is the second rejected complaint, the first was to the corporation’s editorial complaints unit. The BBC Trust upheld that decision.

The audience would have been prepared for highly complicated and unrealistic storylines that bore no relation to life

In the original complaint, Opus Dei spokesman Jack Valero said:

Members of Opus Dei are Catholics, they are not going around killing people, having sex with married people and making money.

Worth repeating.


5 Responses to “BBC rejects Opus Dei complaint”

  1. marc says:

    “Members of Opus Dei are Catholics, they are not going around killing people, having sex with married people and making money.”

    Members of Opus Dei are by that measure, not normal. Everyone makes money and a lot of people have sex with other married people regardless of their religious affiliations. Killing people? Who knows what they get up to: after all, all they need to do is confess, say a pennance and whoopsy-daisy the slate’s clean again.

  2. Andrew Nixon says:

    One wonders who they do have sex with if they don’t have sex with the person to whom they are married…

  3. marc says:

    Perhaps they, in the words of Pink Floyd, “make love to girls in magazines”.

  4. Joartsil says:

    “Members of Opus Dei are Catholics, they are not going around killing people, having sex with married people and making money.”

    Well in this fictional account they clearly are.

  5. marc says:

    Joartsil: Opus Dei obviously have trouble separating truth from fiction anyhoo: just look at what they belive in!