I think this true, and I think there are probably a lot of people on the outside who think "conservative", "trad", "Opus Dei", "SSPX" etc all mean the same thing.

oh this is the play!

type of guy frantically trying to find a way to make james 5:1-6 about spiritual hubris

seeing a consistent life pacifist researcher get cited in popular discourse and trying to be chill and normal about it 👀 🧬🧬🧬

I know McNair a little and was fortunate to attend a talk she gave on PITS. She's excellent.

This is probably fair. I'm a booster of secular orders, but * coed * meetings open to the public * supervised by vowed religious are all pretty important parts of the recipe.

This isn't the first "Powerful person is Opus Dei" claim on this site I've had trouble confirming.

Where are you finding that Vance is Opus Dei? I can't surface it in the search results.

I'm pretty skeptical. I'm having a great deal of trouble finding a source for "JD Vance is Opus Dei" and I regularly see claims like that about Opus Dei that don't check out.