Reply #41: My niece, an Opus Dei member stayed at the NYC residence

[SharonAnn]

for 2 years. She was in the United states, from Chile, studying nursing. She's from a wealthy family, supporters of Pinochet (who was a big supporter of Opus Dei in Chile).

We would see her when we went to New York and she always wanted to meet for lunch or an early dinner. We asked if it was because she was supposed to be in by a certain time and she said no, it was because of the rats.

Apparently if she went back to the residence at night when it was dark, there were rats running around the area in front of the entrance. I couldn't understand it because it's a brand new building in a very upper-crust section of New York. It was later, when I learned that the women had to enter through a separate entrance in the side/back, that she wasn't allowed to enter through the well-lit front entrance on the street. She had to enter through the side, in the dark, with the rats.

How disgusting! I figure she didn't explain it to me because she knew what my reaction would be. I don't put up with women being treated as second-class citizens anywhere! It's why I left the Catholic Church.