Opus Dei

Morro Velho Social Center began in 1969 in Jardim Taboão, a poor village in the outskirts of São Paulo, with a small group of women from the village. Nowadays some 300 students graduate each year from its course of professional formation.

More than 500 people took part in a series of talks and panel discussions on the family, organized by the Family Development Institute of Kianda School in Nairobi, as a way of celebrating the 25th anniversary of the school and also commemorating the centennial of the birth of Blessed Josemaria.

Provisional information on events in Rome related to Blessed Josemaria's canonization.

A Vatican Information Service article about the Pope's meeting with students on the the UNIV Holy Week trip.

"Opus Dei marked a decisive intervention by God in the life and the work of many individuals and of the Church at large." An article in memory of Blessed Josemaria by the Archbishop of Tuam, recently published in the Irish Catholic.

Guest commentary in Viennese newspaper by Cardinal Christopher Schönborn, Archbishop of Vienna and general editor of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

A new website offers the writings of Opus Dei's founder in English, French, Italian and Spanish, with a text search feature.

Article by Msgr. Flavio Capucci, Rome

Seido Publishers has just published Ten to chi wo Tsunagu ("Uniting Heaven and Earth"), a biographical sketch of the founder of Opus Dei by Toshimi Nakai.

Bishops around the world have recently celebrated masses commemorating the centennial of Blessed Josemaría Escrivá's birth. Here's what some of them had to say about Opus Dei's founder.