Heritage Foundation leader has long received spiritual guidance from group and his policy goals align with its teachings

Kevin Roberts, the Heritage Foundation president and the architect of Project 2025, the conservative thinktank’s road map for a second Trump presidency, has close ties and receives regular spiritual guidance from an Opus Dei-led center in Washington DC, a hub of activity for the radical and secretive Catholic group.

Roberts acknowledged in a speech last September that – for years – he has visited the Catholic Information Center, a K Street institution headed by an Opus Dei priest and incorporated by the archdiocese of Washington, on a weekly basis for mass and “formation”, or religious guidance. Opus Dei also organizes monthly retreats at the CIC.

  • @sugar_in_your_teaEnglish
    1•1 month ago

    The Wikipedia page is a bit sus as well.

    I’m guessing it’s pretty boring, like Free Masons and other secretive groups, but who knows. People tend to overreact to things they don’t understand, which is why secretive groups like this get so many conspiracy theories created about them. Some people just want to maintain their privacy, and there’s nothing wrong with that IMO.

    Don’t take this as me defending him or anything like that, I think Project 2025 is terrible for a whole host of reasons. But I don’t think it’s because of ties to a Catholic club.