[AlaskaErik]

My wife called them a secret society and she's a converted Catholic. But I'm in the process of unconverting her.

[bornacatholic]

When I lived in Maine, an Opus Dei Priest used to stop at my house for supper on his way north of where I lived for meetings with those interested in the Order.

I could tell you the name of this kind brilliant Spanish Priest but he would prolly have me killed.

BTW, the meetings of this secret society were widely publicised, they were open to anyone, even non-Catholics, and I went to a few even though they were not my cup of meat

[Campion]

My wife called them a secret society

Your wife is wrong; there's nothing secret about O.D. at all.

Members don't usually go around broadcasting their affiliation, but that's about as secret as it gets.

[Conservative til I die]

My wife called them a secret society and she's a converted Catholic. But I'm in the process of unconverting her.

Endangering one's spouse's soul is something we should all aspire to.

[RobbyS]

Liberal Catholics--the ones who spout about "the spirit of Vatican II" but seem nver to have read its actual documents--hate Opus Dei. It is somewhat like the Jesuits were in the beginning, St. Ignatius wasn't exactly "sweet-natured" either. He was a Spanish soldier who "got religion."