Opus Dei

Interview with Roger Bissonnette, car mechanic and school bus driver, Besner & Bissonnette Inc. He is married with two adult children.

What is Opus Dei doing to promote the welfare of young people in the struggling countries of Africa so as to open more hopeful horizons?

How does the Opus Dei Prelature, given the current condition of the world, influence events, particularly in the Church?

New York is legendary for its fast pace of life. Like everywhere, people here have trouble finding time to reflect on the meaning of life, or on what it takes to live a fulfilled life. But that is exactly what a group of college students and young professionals did recently at Schuyler Hall, an Opus Dei center in Manhattan, at a seminar entitled “The Examined Life: Philosophical Reflections on Ordinary Life.”

Are the members of Opus Dei supposed to do outstanding work and seek to be the best? Does one have to stand out in order to be a saint?

Is Opus Dei a conservative institution?

Following the attack of March 11 [in Madrid], you spoke of praying for the terrorists. Is it possible to pray for people who are capable of such savage acts?

With respect to the human condition in the past century, St. Josemaría Escrivá maintained that “these world crises are crises of saints.” What is your view of that? Is it still true now that we have entered a new century?

Today there is a new interest in religion. How does the Work respond to this interior thirst?

From the doctrinal point of view, is the Work traditionalist or traditional? And how does that fit in with Vatican II?