Opus Dei

Archbishop Antonio Cañizares of Granada, Spain, and Bishop Javier Echevarría, prelate of Opus Dei, recently blessed a new chapel dedicated to St. Josemaría in the church of San Ildefonso in Granada.

"I continue to believe in you," said the Pope to more than 700,000 young people in a meeting on May 3 in Madrid. "You are the hope of the Church, no less than of society."

This morning John Paul II exhorted university students, in Rome for the international UNIV Congress, to live with optimism, joy and peace, being understanding towards all.

Three new videos of St. Josemaría’s canonization are now available in English, from EWTN, Midwest Theological Forum and Scepter Publishers.

Personal accounts of the October 6 ceremony, press clippings, and homilies from Thanksgiving Masses present the events that surrounded the canonization.

This is the full text of a July 25, 1978 profile of St. Josemaria Escriva, the founder of Opus Dei, by Cardinal Luciani, who later became Pope John Paul I.

Kathleen Higgins of Delta, B.C. describes how a counter-cultural marriage has the best chances of success.

John Paul II has announced that he will go to Pompeii next October to seek Mary's intercession to bring about peace and justice in the world. The shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary of Pompeii, in the outskirts of Naples, is one of most-visited Marian shrines in Italy.

Carlos Bordolli of Uruguay recounts his journey from atheism to faith, begun when a coincidence brought St. Josemaría’s “The Way” into his hands.