Opus Dei

"When Pope Francis declared a Year of Mercy starting in December 2015, it set me thinking about works of mercy. In a meeting with friends to discuss possible projects, someone mentioned how he used to go with a group of volunteers to a prison to attend Sunday Mass there with the prisoners."

As this step makes it possible to beatify Guadalupe Ortiz, Fr. Antonio Rodríguez de Rivera, postulator of her cause, answered some questions. What follows are parts of the interview that the postulator granted on May 4, 2017, when the decree on the heroicity of the virtues of Guadalupe was approved.

Following the authorization given by Pope Francis to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to publish the decree on the miracle attributed to Guadalupe’s intercession, we offer a list of the steps in the canonization cause of Guadalupe Ortiz

Pope Francis has authorized the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to issue the decree approving a miracle attributed to the intercession of Guadalupe Ortiz (1916-1975), a member of Opus Dei.

The cure of a man who suffered basal cell carcinoma has been declared a miracle worked by God through the intercession of Guadalupe Ortiz.

The formation offered in Opus Dei is also addressed to young people, so that "they may be, now and for the rest of their lives, Christian leaven in families, jobs, and the whole of the immense field of human life in the middle of the world."

Rejoice and be glad a short video summary (2'36''). On April 9 the Vatican released the latest Apostolic Exhortation from Pope Francis: Gaudete et exsultate: On the call to holiness in today’s world.

Spring Publications in Hong Kong publishes the writings of St Josemaria in Chinese. Lucia Kwong describes some of their creative initiatives at the annual Hong Kong book fair.

Anna Corry, a supernumerary member of Opus Dei, had many messages to pass on before she died of cancer on the 29th of March 2018, in Sydney, Australia.

Some of the bishops celebrating Masses for the feast of Saint Josemaria in the United States this year are Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York; Bishops Edward Burns of Dallas, Brendan J. Cahill of Victoria, Texas; Bishop Richard J. Malone of Buffalo; David Kagan of Bismarck, North Dakota; Bishop Robert Barron, auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles; and Bishop Enrique Delgado, auxiliary bishop of Miami.