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Moschella says Opus Dei does not force separations of children away from their parents. She herself has found that she is a better daughter to her parents since joining the Work than she ever was before. “But at times, there could be an irrational objection by parents to a person’s vocation,” she says. It is especially at these times that members must remember the order of their priorities...
This is the charge of ODAN, the Opus Dei Awareness Network. According to Executive Director Dianne R. DiNicola, who founded ODAN in 1991, the goal of the group is to provide information, outreach and support to people around the world who claim to have been hurt by Opus Dei...
...member while a student at Boston College in February of 1988, left the Work. As Tammy drew closer into the group, her mother says, she pulled further and further away from her family, even saying at one point that “she had a new family in Opus Dei and that she could not come home...
...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 so she started ODAN to share her family’s cautionary tale. Twelve years after DiNicola started the network, she estimates that about 3,600 people from across the country have contacted ODAN with concerns about Opus Dei. This is a very rough estimate, as ODAN does not keep figures...
...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...