{"id":4871,"date":"2006-02-07T08:44:11","date_gmt":"2006-02-07T08:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/02\/the-real-silas.html"},"modified":"2006-02-07T08:44:11","modified_gmt":"2006-02-07T08:44:11","slug":"the-real-silas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/02\/the-real-silas.html","title":{"rendered":"The Real Silas!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, that Silas guy? The albino Opus Dei monk? Who kills people?<\/p>\n<p>Turns out there&#8217;s a <strong>real Opus Dei Silas<\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2006\/02\/06\/news\/church.php#\">But, as the NYTimes reports, this one&#8217;s a little different than his fictional namesake:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2006\/02\/07\/national\/07opux.1841.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>With the film starring Tom Hanks now set for release on May 19, Opus Dei is trying to sate public interest and cast the group in a very different light than the religious home of a fictional assassin. <\/p>\n<p>The group is promoting a blog by an Opus Dei priest in Rome, revamping its Web site and even arranging interviews with a member said to be the only &quot;real Silas&quot; in Opus Dei \u2014 <strong>a Nigerian stockbroker who lives in Brooklyn.<\/strong> Silas Agbim, the stockbroker, said that Opus Dei taught its members to hold themselves to the highest standards. &quot;If you do your work well, it&#8217;s pleasing to God,&quot; said Mr. Agbim, a graying father of three grown children who is married to a professor emeritus of library science. &quot;And if you think you will get holy by reciting 10 rosaries a day and doing your work sloppily, that is wrong.&quot; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The link above is to the IHT, which doesn&#8217;t require registration. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/02\/07\/national\/07opus.html?ei=5094&amp;en=fc092482af8324b7&amp;hp=&amp;ex=1139374800&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;partner=homepage&amp;adxnnlx=1139319424-ugQFKgngiGIvm4tO5eITdQ\">Here&#8217;s the NYTimes link<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/davincicode-opusdei.com\/about\">Here&#8217;s a link to the blog mentioned in the article.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, that Silas guy? The albino Opus Dei monk? Who kills people? Turns out there&#8217;s a real Opus Dei Silas. But, as the NYTimes reports, this one&#8217;s a little different than his fictional namesake: With the film starring Tom Hanks now set for release on May 19, Opus Dei is trying to sate public&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Real Silas!!! - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/02\/the-real-silas.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Real Silas!!! - Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"You know, that Silas guy? 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