Word: dei
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...fairness to the members of Opus Dei who wear mustaches, beards, side-burns and long hair and who do not necessarily wear coats and ties at meals at Elmbrook, I have to protest your presentation of Opus Dei in the April 13 issue of the CRIMSON. Dan Barney did a conscientious job, but Opus Dei is not a conservative organization. Neither is it a liberal one. Not everything in this world (happily) can be reduced to such convenient labels...
...fairness to the many thousands of barbers, plumbers, secretaries, housewives and ordinary workers in all walks of life in Spain (and the world over) who are members of Opus Dei and far outnumber the owners of banks, insurance companies and industrial plants, I should also protest the picture of Opus Dei as a conservative, status-quo oriented organization...
Your article seems to miss the point that Opus Dei's aim is to bring about a peaceful but radical revolution in all parts of society. Opus Dei's message is that there are all kinds of hells and partial hells in this society of ours, as well as all kinds of false peace-whether in Franco's cabinet or Nixon's, in board rooms or factories, in Vietnam or in the homes and families or in Harvard dorms. But they are all hells of man's doing in what is basically God's good world. There...
...Opus Dei is as universal as the Catholic Church, aiming at a revolution in all parts of society. Small wonder that there should be some members of Opus Dei at the top-who get the press: men are needed everywhere. But it's much more important that there are far more at the bottom and in the middle-and it hardly matters that the establishment press can't see them...
...join Opus Dei? "It was the best way I could serve God," one member said. "Through my own sanctification. I could help those around...