 Not all Catholic commentators, however, were impressed equally by Escrivá's spirituality.For instance, the Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar wrote in an article of 1963 that Escrivá's "The Way" provided an "insufficient spirituality" to sustain a religious organization and that the book was hardly more than "a little Spanish manual for advanced Boy Scouts".Von Balthasar also questioned the attitudes towards prayer described by "The Way", declaring that Escrivá's use of prayer 
Von Balthasar repeated his negative evaluation of "The Way" in a television interview from 1984.