Opus Dei

Original sin can sound like an unfair idea: are we really being punished for something Adam and Eve did thousands of years ago, and does it mean we’re all born bad people? Well, no, that’s not what the Church teaches. Original sin is really about a gift that was lost, that God never stops trying to give back to us.

Studying and working take up most of our lives, even on the days when we don't feel like it or the results don't show. "Everything Counts" is a new series exploring how assignments, deadlines, tiredness, and even AI tools can become a path to serve others, shape the world around us, and meet God in the everyday. First up: what it means to work like God works.

You don’t have to have it all figured out to take the leap. Nati Martínez talks about quitting her job to start Boilera, a workshop where people make their own shoes and how she learned to stop waiting for “someday” and start finding meaning in her life right now.

St. Josemaría compares faith to an athlete’s discipline: training, sacrifice, and a prize worth chasing. A short read on why comfort is the real opponent.

The sixth commandment, is an invitation to love the way God loves. It goes beyond avoiding infidelity, calling us to integrate body and soul so that our sexuality becomes a genuine gift of self.

A student athlete opens up about the pressure to perform and how faith taught her that her worth isn’t determined by the scoreboard.

Why are we here? Science can tell us a great deal about how the universe works, but to understand why it exists in the first place, we need philosophy and theology. In the first few pages of Genesis, we discover not just where we came from, but who made us and what we’re made for.

Jesus’ example shows us how to stay firm in the truth and open to the people in front of us at the exact same time.

How can a blind man teach us to see? Jesus chooses a man whom society has cast aside to teach us to rediscover beauty in simple things and, through it, to reach the Heart of Christ.

Pope Leo XIV invites us not to go through life with our eyes "fixed on the ground." Exams can do exactly that — swallow up the whole horizon and take your peace with them — but it doesn't have to be that way.