The Opus Dei article is a total propagdana piece. It makes no attempt at all to objectively describe Opus Dei. Rather, it reads like an Opus Dei proselytizing tract.
There are many serious, sustained and important criticisms of Opus Dei, especially from Catholics! There are similar criticisms from many people worried about their cult-like behaviour. However, the article only minimally mentions these controversies, glosses over them, and then disposes of them with generic apologetics. That style of writing violates our NPOV policy.
The article, as it stood when I read it, is an embarassment to any work that claims to be an encyclopedia. The problems with it are not merely that it is part of a "work under construction". The problems are:
* It represents agressive religious proselytizing which clearly flouts NPOV.
* It offers no serious academic or critical-historical analysis.
* It minimizes and makes apologetics for the vast amount of criticism in such a way that one might rightfully call the article "censored."
Robert (RK)
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Various people are working on this article. As a preliminary, User:Karada and I are trying to make the heading structure more conventional. Some of the language is surely by a native speaker of Spanish, and is awkward. I see no reason why some better approximation to NPOV shouldn't emerge.
There is quite a lot of criticism on the page. The absence of criticism from within Catholicism is probably a weakness. We'll have to see how it goes.
Charles