“Don’t judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily forget this elementary rule of prudence.”
St. Jose Maria Escriva
Escriva defended Adolf Hitler. He told Father Feltzman that “Hitler had been unjustly accused of killing 6 million Jews.” “In fact he had killed only 4 million.”
Former numerary Maria del Carmen Tapia relates in her book Beyond the Threshold: A Life in Opus Dei that Escriva routinely lost his temper, and that as secretary in charge of writing down his words and actions, she was not allowed to right down anything negative that she witnessed. She herself was subjected to abusive words from Escriva, who called her the most filthy names, e.g. WHORE, SOW, PIG, and then screamed during this meeting with both men and women present, that someone should “pull down her panties…. and give her a spanking,” referring to a fellow numerary woman who had assisted Tapia by mailing letters for her.
ODAN’s Opposition to the Canonization of Josemaria Escrivá de Balaguer