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As their daughter drew increasingly apart from her family, the DiNicolas brought their concerns to members of Opus Dei. Dianne DiNicola contacted a Catholic priest who told her he knew others with similar stories. She says, however, she wasn’t satisfied with the response from Opus Dei, and...
As a part of her efforts at information outreach, DiNicola says she spends a significant portion of her time sending information about Opus Dei to Catholic campus ministers. Indeed, she says informing college campuses is “one of our main focuses.”
The first and only Opus Dei priest to operate as the Catholic chaplain at Harvard took this post in 1954, just five years after the group had taken root in Chicago.
This priest, though, according to his successor, Reverend Joseph Collins, was not universally welcomed by Harvard’s student body. “I think that the students got the impression that if they joined the [Harvard Catholic] club, they’d have to join Opus Dei,?...
Although this priest chose to leave Harvard for reasons of his own, in 1961 Collins says he asked two priests of Opus Dei to leave the school’s Catholic chaplaincy. One of them, Collins says, was Bucciarelli. Bucciarelli denies the charge.