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"Serving means growing and helping others grow"

Isabel Sánchez is Secretary of the Central Advisory, a council made up of women who advise the Prelate of Opus Dei. In this interview she speaks about her recent book "Northbound Women: Compasses for a Complicated World"

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  • That Little Boy in St. Josemaria’s Arms
  • ​He Accompanied Over a Thousand People at their Death
  • "If feminism means equal rights, I am extremely feminist"
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Opus Dei is a Catholic institution working in more than 60 countries around the world. It has been in Ireland since 1947.

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  • 05/18/2019 – Pope says Blessed Guadalupe Ortiz Inspires “Normal” Holiness
  • 05/08/2019 – Press Dossier on Guadalupe Ortiz de Landázuri
  • 01/16/2017 – Press Dossier on the Third Elective Congress
  • 01/15/2017 – Election of next prelate of Opus Dei to begin on January 21
  • 04/27/2016 – Montse Grases Declared Venerable
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