OPUS DEI SIR,—Mr. O'Leary says that he lived in an
Opus Dei hostel for three years and was never pressed to join the movement. He seems to have been unusually left alone; I was speaking very recently to a young man who was employed by Opus Dei to teach English to foreign students, and who, after only two weeks, was strongly urged to join. Mr. O'Leary also asks, in- credulously, where are the Catholic university chaplains who have been discourteously treated by Opus Dei. I thought I had been quite specific about this in my letter, but if Mr. O'Leary wishes me to re- iterate what I said there I will do so. They are at Oxford and Manchester; their names are Fr. Hollings and Fr. Winterborn, Si. If Mr. O'Leary has now lead the letter from 'Tutor Oxoniensis,' with its detailed and circumstantial account of the recent maladroit activities of Opus Dei in Oxford, he will see that I was not exaggerating when I said that Opus Del has aroused considerable and justified resentment in Catholic academic circles.—Yours faithfully,
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