" " Respect for its members ' freedom is an essential condition for Opus Dei's very existence ," says Escrivá.

V. Messori says that Escrivá set up inviolable and perpetual rules to establish the essential conditions for Opus Dei's life.

The Unofficial Opus Dei Webpage says: Father Vladimir Felzmann, an ex-Opus Dei member and leader, tells about a discussion with José Maria Escrivá, founder of Opus Dei: after he ( Escrivá ) insisted that with Hitler's help the Franco government had saved Christianity from Communism, he added: " Hitler against the Jews, Hitler against the Slavs, this means Hitler against communism.

On the other hand, members of Opus Dei say that the letter of Escrivá ( written 8 years after the US, the UN and Allies recognized Franco ) shows his exemplary virtues as a citizen and a Catholic priest, as he says: " Although a stranger to any political activity, I cannot help but rejoice as a priest and Spaniard " that Spain's Head of State should proclaim that Spain accepts the law of God according to the doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church, a faith which will inspire its legislation.

Allen says that Escrivá was staunchly non-political and was neither pro-Franco nor anti-Franco.

"' Great ' holiness consists in carrying out the ' little duties ' of each moment ", says Escrivá.

This God makes himself " totally available ," says Escrivá, to nourish the Christian so as to become " one single thing with him.

This person resides in a Christian who is willing to correspond, and thus the human spirit which was created to love, says Escrivá, is led along an " inclined plane ," which starts with the fervent repetition of short prayers and then " gives way to intimacy with God, looking at God without needing rest or feeling tired.

Escrivá says one cannot love someone who is not known.

These habits of human excellence, including love for the truth, courage, and generosity, are the " foundation ", Escrivá says, of the supernatural virtues of faith and love for God.

The " choice of error does not liberate ," says Escrivá, and brings instead the " slavery of sin.

Paula says that even though Carl's letters usually began, `` Dear Miss Steichen '', there was an understanding from the beginning that they would become husband and wife.

If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.

`` I had natural sock '', he says, ' as a storyteller and was precociously good at description, dialogue, and most of the other staples of the fiction-writer's trade but I was bugged by a mammoth complex of thoughts and feelings that prevented me from doing more than just diddling the surface of sustained fiction-writing ''.

) when Krim says mine was as severe a critical-intellectual, environment as can be imagined, he is off his rocker.

Former British Prime Minister Attlee says Eisenhower was not a `` great soldier ''.

The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.

Jemela ( surname: Gerby ), 23, seems Hong Kong Oriental but has a Spanish father and an Indian mother, was born in America and educated at Holy Cross Academy and Textile High School, says she learned belly dancing at family picnics.

He says that he was not permitted to rebut before the hearing officer statements attributed to him by the local board, and, further, that he was denied at trial the right to have the Department of Justice hearing officer's report and the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as to his claim -- all in violation of the Fifth Amendment.

Finally petitioner says that he was entitled to inspect the FBI report during the proceedings before the hearing officer as well as at the trial.

The `` Essex Journal '' says that he `` delivered an oration on the bridge, which for elegance of style, propriety of speech or force of argument, was truly Ciceronian ''.

`` That House & Home Round Table was the real starting point for today's revolution in materials handling '', says Clarence Thompson, long chairman of the Lumber Dealers' Research Council.

When we examine what each master says was his first collage we see that much the same thing happens in each.

When someone says, for example, `` They took x-rays to see that there was nothing wrong with me '', it pays to consider how this statement would normally be made.

This dinner was the start of a new blatancy in the relationship between the gangs and the politicians, which, prior to 1924, says Pasley, `` had been maintained with more or less stealth '', but which henceforth was marked by these ostentatious gatherings, denounced by a clergyman as `` Belshazzar feasts '', at which `` politicians fraternized cheek by jowl with gangsters, openly, in the big downtown hotels ''.

`` I was full of booze and, well, a drunk is apt to do anything he says he'll do ''.

`` Gilborn says he was in his office all day with her yesterday.

`` When Mickey went to the Yankees '', says Mark Freeman, an ex-Yankee pitcher who sells mutual funds in Denver, `` DiMaggio still was playing and every day Mickey would go by his locker, just aching for some word of encouragement from this great man, this hero of his.

For ' God had not rained ', says the Scripture, before man was made, and there was no man to till the earth.

) Opus says he is attracted to " svelte buoyant waterfowl ".

Allen says: " The Benelli story offers a good case for testing whether Escriva was serious about Opus Dei having no political agenda.

John Allen also says that there were Opus Dei priests who were involved in opposition movements.

They failed to see, says Messori, that there were many other members of Opus Dei who were against the Franco Regime, like Rafael Calvo Serrer and Antonio Fontan.

This deliberate campaign of the Falange led to the black legend that Opus Dei is a type of political party, he says.

Brian Crozier, an English historian, says that " Opus Dei is neither a political party nor a political pressure group as its enemies want people to believe.

" Messori says that Opus Dei's fidelity to the Catholic faith makes it capable of new ideas and its members contributors for the advancement of society.

" The " absolute novelty " of Opus Dei, says Cardinal Franz König ( 1975 ), the perceived leader of the " progressivists " in Vatican II, lies in teaching that the two separated worlds of religious life and professional life " should in fact walk together.

" Opus Dei is the perfect storm, says Allen: It has become the center of the debate in the post-Vatican II polarization in Catholic politics.

On the other hand, V. Messori, who studied the von Balthasar issue, says that the theologian later retracted his views after more in-depth study and after meeting members of Opus Dei.

We are no ruthless cult, says Opus Dei

On the other hand, V. Messori, who studied the von Balthasar issue, says that the theologian later retracted his views after more in-depth study and after meeting members of Opus Dei.

" Opus Dei ’ s Statutes says that the goal of Opus Dei is to bring about that persons of all walks of life, first of all the intellectuals, practice Christianity through the sanctification of their work " so that all things will be put in order according to the Will of the Creator.

In terms of educational level, income and social status, V. Messori says that there is a predominance of middle-to-low levels among the members of Opus Dei.

( 1997, p. 84 ) Gomez Perez, in Opus Dei: Una Explicación, says that Opus Dei's social composition shows a correspondence with the local situation, because, he says, all honest trades can be sanctified.