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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...
...misses the point, therefore, and is indeed false to say that "The organization is powerful in Spain because many of its members hold influential positions in the economy," etc. Power has nothing to do with the revolution Opus Dei is interested in. Just try making a man believe-with a belief that is free and responsible, with a belief that really counts-by using money or industrial power of governmental power...
...case, this is not Opus Dei's revolution. Opus Dei claims no monopoly on spiritual power, which always is based in the free conscience. On the one hand its message is to all men of good will; and on the other, it is based on nothing more than the Church has always taught and offered to put into men's hands-the doctrine and the way of Christ as something living, a doctrine the Church constantly interprets as relevant to the ills of this world. The only thing that Opus Dei insists on is that it be put into...
...convey the idea that Opus Dei is not aware of the social or political dimensions of the Catholic faith, then, is obviously to get the matter backwards. The fact that Opus Dei is made up of laymen in all walks of life dedicated to living the implications of their faith to the fullest says differently. Opus Dei rightly does not dictate how its members should best think or act in such matters, nor does it attempt to organize them. This is for laymen to do, not organizations of the Church. It is the laymen who have to be responsible...