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His magnum opus was Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” widely agreed upon as the bestselling album of all time.

The playwright has downplayed any direct link between the legendary rock group and his play, which dramatizes the tense recording sessions of a 1970s band uncannily like Fleetwood Mac perfecting a magnum opus strikingly similar to “Rumours.”

While many associate Opus Dei with The Da Vinci Code and warmed-over conspiracy theories, British financial journalist Gareth Gore has shown that the group remains active and prominent.

Gore’s new book, Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy Inside the Catholic Church, traces the group from its origins in Franco’s Spain to its rising influence in Washington, D.C., where it has focused on capturing the federal judiciary and shifting it far to the right.

Another quote that appears in the New York magazine piece is from Father Arne Panula, the vicar of Opus Dei, who was based in New York from 1998 to 2002, and who became director of the CIC until his death in 2017.