Opus Dei before women

In previous articles I have quoted splendid comments by St. John Paul II and Father Raniero Cantalamessa OFM on the real importance and identity of women in their legitimate nature and their enormous transcendence in life. In contrast, I also cited statements by the imbecile Lázaro Cárdenas, unjust, perverse and revolutionary, which describe women as a hindrance that must be annulled. Now I quote the words of José María Escrivá de Balaguer, founder of Opus Dei, interviewed in 1968: “Development, maturity, emancipation of women, should not mean a claim to equality or uniformity with men, an imitation of the manly way of acting: that would not be an achievement, it would be a loss for women, not because they are more or less than men, but because it is different. On an essential level that must have its juridical recognition, both in civil and ecclesiastical law, if one can speak of equal rights, because women have, exactly like men, the dignity of person and daughter of God. But from that fundamental equality, each one must achieve what is his own; and on this plane, emancipation is as much as saying real possibility of fully developing one’s own virtualities: those she has in her uniqueness, and those she has as a woman. Equality before the law, equality of opportunity before the law, does not suppress, but presupposes and promotes that diversity, which is wealth for all.” 



Original source in Spanish