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Leaders of the conservative
Catholic group Opus Dei are
denying charges that their
founder, who is scheduled to
be beatified in May, was an-
ti-Semitic or ever defended
Adolf Hitler.
Jewish groups are ap-
preciative of Opus Dei's at-
tempt to clarify the issue, if
not entirely satisfied with
the evidence.
The charges against Mon-
signor Josemaria Escriva de
Balaguer, the Spaniard who
founded the group in 1928,
were made by the Rev.
Vladimir Feltzman and first
published in the American
weekly magazine Newsweek.
The Rev. Feltzman, who
resigned from Opus Dei in
1985 after 22 years, is now
an aide to England's
Catholic primate, Cardinal
Basil Hume.
When Monsignor Escriva
is beatified by Pope John
Paul II on May 17, it will br-
ing him one step away from
canonization, the final stage
in being declared a Roman
Catholic saint.
Monsignor Escriva died in
1975 and founded a group of
lay people and clergy which
critics have described as
secretive and elitist.
The group has 75,000
members worldwide, mostly
in Spain and Latin America.
There are about 3,000 mem-
bers of the group in the
United States.
Newsweek quoted the Rev.
Feltzman as describing
Escriva as an arrogant man
with a "filthy" temper, who
believed that everything he
said "came from God."
The Rev. Feltzman quoted
Monsignor Escriva as say-
ing: "Hitler had been unjust-
ly accused of killing 6 mill-
ion Jews. In fact, he had
killed only 4 million."
The Rev. Feltzman also
said that Monsignor Escriva
was so unhappy with the
outcome of the Second Vat-
ican. Council that he and his
successor went to Greece in
1967 to try to ally Opus Dei
with the Greek Orthodox
Church. The Second Vatican
Council, among other
things, fundamentally
changed the Roman Catholic
Church's relationship with
Judaism and the Jewish
people.
The Rev. Feltzman's asser-
tions have been firmly de-
nied by the head of Opus
Dei, Bishop Alvaro Del Por-
tillo.
In a statement released in
Rome last week, Bishop Del
Portillo said Monsignor
Escriva was "a man who
profoundly loved the Jewish
people and who always con-
demned any kind of
tyranny.
"In this I am simply par-
ticipating in the sorrow of
Monsignor Escriva for the
Holocaust suffered by the
Jewish people by the work of
the criminal Nazi designs."
In a Jan. 7 letter to the
head of Italy's Jewish com-
munity, Tullia Zevi, the
vicar general of Opus Dei,
Monsignor Javier
Echevarria, wrote that the
statements attributed to his
organization's founder "are
an absolute lie."
"I can assure you in the
most categoric way that our
founder loved the Jewish
Jewish groups are
appreciative of
Opus Dei's attempt
to clarify the
issue.
community and expressed
this publicly on very many
occasions.
"From the very first
moments of the persecutions
suffered by the Jewish peo-
ple, and at every occasion
when news reached him con-
cerning the shocking details
of the tortures that the
members of the Jewish
community had to suffer on
the part of the Nazis, our
founder condemned the
terrible Holocaust.
"The members of the Jew-
ish people who belong to the
Prelattu-e of Opus Dei can
well testify to all that I have
myself stated. There are in-
deed very many people of the
Jewish faith who give their
cooperation to the work
which Opus Dei renders."
There are a number of
Jews who support Opus Dei
financially or by donating
their time and talent, accor-
ding to William Schmitt, a
spokesman for Opus Dei in
the United States.
They, along with an
unknown number of other
non-Catholics and non-
Christians who support
Opus Dei's work, are called
"cooperators."
Rabbi Leon Klenicki, di-
rector of interfaith affairs at
the Anti-Defamation
League, has had ongoing
contact with Opus Dei for
more than a decade.