Opus Dei

The Prelate’s reflections on the Monday in Holy Week, broadcast on EWTN world radio

Bishop Javier Echevarría attended the funeral of Cardinal Franz König on March 27 in Vienna at St. Stephen’s Cathedral.

The theme of the 19th World Youth Day is the petition some “Greeks” brought to the Apostles: “We Want to See Jesus” (Jn 12:21). We also offer a video of scenes from previous meetings of John Paul II with participants in UNIV congresses.

In 2003 new centers of Opus Dei were opened in nine countries: Argentina, Chile, the Czech Republic, Lebanon, Mexico, South Africa, Spain, Croatia, and Slovenia. The centers in Croatia and Slovenia were the countries’ first.

Learning values along with baking. A report on a school in the Philippines started by members of Opus Dei.

Cardinal Camillo Ruini, vicar of Rome, presided on March 5th over the opening session of the Tribunal of the Vicariate of Rome, which was convened for the cause of canonization of Bishop Alvaro del Portillo, Prelate of Opus Dei (Madrid, 1914 – Rome, 1994).

Cardinal Camillo Ruini will preside over the opening session of a tribunal of the Vicariate of Rome in the cause of canonization of Bishop Alvaro del Portillo on March 5, 2004. Bishop del Portillo was born in Madrid in 1914, succeeded St. Josemaría Escrivá as head of Opus Dei in 1975, and died in Rome in 1994.

"Dear Brothers and Sisters, let us set out with trust on our Lenten journey, sustained by fervent prayer, penance and concern for those in need." Full message follows.

Zenit reports on the installation of Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran and Cardinal Julián Herranz at two churches in Rome entrusted to Opus Dei, St. Apollinare and St. Eugenio.

It was the first time the journalist had interviewed a person stretched out on top of a bed. But he agreed the interviewee should be comfortable. "Diari de Tarragona" interviews Joaquín Romero, 35, a technical architect from Barcelona with irreversible multiple sclerosis.