Photo shows author receiving holy picture from Fr. Maciel in Salamanca Christmastide 1961 during Legion of Christ "Patron Saint for the year" private ritual
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
International Cultic Studies Conference in Philadelphia, end June, 2008
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
The FLDS temple at the YFZ Ranch near Eldorado, Texas
Formation 1930
Purpose/focus Church
Headquarters Hildale, Utah
Membership 10,000
JUST got back from the Conference on Cults here
Catholics think they are free of these because of Catholic groups' doctrinal orthodoxy; they forget a cult is a cult because of its METHODS: how it RECRUITS, RETAINS AND RELEASES -OR NOT!- MEMBERS; it is characterized by CHARISMATIC LEADER weilding limitless power over the members and absorbing more and more of their energies, devotion, love and life.
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