{"id":3166,"date":"2011-04-16T09:52:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T09:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3166"},"modified":"2025-09-28T23:46:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:46:38","slug":"is-madonna-considering-joining-opus-dei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3166","title":{"rendered":"Is Madonna considering joining Opus Dei?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here's the story\/rumor – which also gives a brief summary of the Catholic group –<\/p>\n

It is reported that Madonna spent last Friday with Opus Dei priests at the group's London headquarters.<\/a><\/p>\n

And here's a refutation on the OSV blog –<\/p>\n

Fantastic yarn. Unfortunately, it appears lacking in factual basis. Brian Finnerty, the U.S. communications director for Opus Dei, told me this afternoon that the story is not true.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here's the story\/rumor – which also gives a brief summary of the Catholic group – It is reported that Madonna spent last Friday with Opus Dei priests at the group's London headquarters. And here's a refutation on the OSV blog – Fantastic yarn. Unfortunately, it appears lacking in factual basis. Brian Finnerty, the U.S. communications […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8825,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166\/revisions\/8825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}