Your story on Opus Dei was, in my opinion, very unjust.
St. Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer’s message is one of personal holiness and finding Christ in the midst of the ordinary circumstances we have each day.
The message is as old as the gospel itself.
As a professional options trader in Chicago and a father of four children, I am asked to convert my life of stock market ups and downs, overzealous train commuters with cell phones and the daily crisis of my teenage daughters into prayer, not to mention the thousand other pin-pricks of each day.
Believe me, I have my good days and my bad.
It’s sad to think that an organization like Opus Dei, which promotes acts of charity, unity in marriage, honesty and accountability to God for the quality of our daily work and being faithful to my Christian “lay” vocation, is considered by society as a “secret sect” with a strange message.
The Tribune tries to scare its readers that the “tentacles” of Opus Dei are trying to infiltrate the uppermost levels of government and business.
Given the daily reporting on mutual fund scandals, obscene executive compensations on Wall Street and corruption in government from California to Washington, D.C., I can only hope that more public and private leaders take ownership of some of the “secret Christian virtues” as honesty, wisdom, understanding, temperance and fortitude.
