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.

An excerpt from an interview with Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, published in Spain's ABC. Cardinal Saraiva took part in the symposium "Witnesses of the 20th Century, Teachers of the 21st Century," which took place in Seville on April 8th.

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.

An article on Saint Josemaria and Opus Dei from the April 2002 issue of Living City, a magazine of the Focolare Movement. The article was published prior to his canonization on October 6, 2002.

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.

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

"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.

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