Sir: What Paul Vallely does not state (”What in the name of God is going on here?” 22 May) is that the vast majority of Opus Dei’s 80,000 members are ordinary married men and women leading humdrum lives with their own families in their own homes. All members try to become […]
Sir: I read with interest your article on Opus Dei of 22 May (”What in the name of God is going on here?”) as one who has been subject to the overtures of this movement for over a year. As an undergraduate at Oxford (the location of an Opus Dei […]
This practice may seem odd if not odious to many nowadays, but it was used by such revered Catholic saints as Francis of Assisi, England’s Thomas More, Jesuit founder Ignatius Loyola and Jerome, translator of the Latin Bible.
(REV.) WALTER DEBOLD
They also heard the pope’s spokesman, Joaquin Navarro-Valls, declare that information about the church is a right of the people, not the property of the Vatican.
Beyond the Threshold traces Tapia’s journey from her first attraction to Opus Dei while working at the Council of Scientific Research in Madrid, Spain, to her virtual imprisonment at the organization’s headquarters in Rome in 1965-66, a nightmare that culminated in her forced request for release from her obligations to “the […]
“This definitely is a stroke for the rich and the military,” said a U.S. missionary priest in San Salvador.
Opus Dei, portrayed as a murderous, power-hungry sect in the novel by Dan Brown, wrote in an April 6 letter to Sony Corp. that a disclaimer would show respect to Jesus and to the Catholic Church.
But, with unswerving allegiance to church teaching, Escriva and Opus Dei have long had a powerful champion–Pope John Paul II. “In Christianity, what counts is faithfulness to doctrine,” said Monsignor Flavio Capucci, an Opus Dei priest who led the campaign for Escriva’s sainthood. Founded in Spain in 1928, Opus Dei is Latin […]
