Why does the Catholic church approve of Opus Dei and therefor corporal mortification?

Question

http://www.odan.org/what_is_opus_dei.htm

Answer 1

they need an armbreaker division just like the mafia

Answer 2

Yes, but just like so many other things, "The Da Vinci Code" lied or exaggerated about both Opus Dei and the real practice of corporal mortification.

+ Opus Dei +

Opus Dei was founded in 1928 by St. Josemaría Escrivá, and approved by the Holy See in 1947.

Since 1982, Opus Dei has been a personal prelature. The Church establishes personal prelatures to carry out specific pastoral missions: in Opus Dei’s case, to spread the ideal of holiness in the middle of the world.

As Pope John Paul II put it, Opus Dei “has as its aim the sanctification of one's life, while remaining within the world at one's place of work and profession: to live the Gospel in the world.”

http://www.jesusdecoded.com/catholicchurch7.php

+ Corporal Mortification +

Some Opus Dei members practice traditional Catholic penances such as using the cilice and discipline. Unlike the exaggerated picture presented in The Da Vinci Code, the cilice and discipline do not cause injury.

These are practices that Catholics have used for centuries and are commonplace in the lives of the saints, for example:
+ St. Francis of Assisi
+ St. Thomas More
+ St. Therese of Lisieux
+ St. Padre Pio
+ Blessed Mother Teresa

http://www.jesusdecoded.com/catholicchurch7b.php

+ With love in Christ.

Answer 3

In a international that worships intercourse, drugs, money and rock 'n roll, we could use so lots greater corporal mortification. The Vatican particularly is conscious this, in easy of the finished revelation of God. Ask any military, military, Air tension, or Marine drill sergeant on the subject of the reward of corporal mortification. they won't call it the comparable difficulty, yet they permit you to understand this is the quickest thank you to coach out previous conduct and instill new ones. Does it seem perverted? given which you're ignorant!

Answer 4

Ppersonal mortification is a matter of personal choice between God and His followers.

Opus Dei is a fine organization of Christian in fellowship to live as Christ taught us to live.

Answer 5

Several saints engaged in this as it gave them personal consolation to do so. The closer you get to holiness the more horrendous your sins seem to you to be and so in order to be better able to compassionate Jesus in his sufferings, they would scourge themselves. The Church neither approves nor disapproves. The Church allows it to be a private matter between the penitent, their confessor and Jesus.

Answer 6

The hierarchy of the church are sick puppy's. But then, they always have been. ( References ) 8 years of Catholic school. By then, I had reached the age of reason.

Answer 7

So what every other kind of degradation as long as it is done under the title of "Sexual Gratification" is fine? That's what this society is saying now days.