Opus Dei

“Opus Dei has not been taken to court,” clarifies Béatrice de la Coste, from Opus Dei’s information office in France. The misreporting concerns a legal case brought against two of the directors of Dosnon Catering School.

During the recent World Youth Day in Spain, 200 confessionals were set up in a famous park in Madrid. Several young Dutch women explain what confession is all about.

A young father asks Saint Josemaria about how to "face this dilemma" we all have with regard to balancing work and family.

Zhonghua Wang is from Beijing and studies in Germany. She tells how she comes to be baptized by Pope Benedict XVI in Rome, during the Easter Vigil, 2011.

During his recent stay in the Congo, the Prelate visited the Monkole Medical Center, just outside Kinshasa. A woman on the housekeeping staff asked him an important question.

Benedict XVI spoke about the importance of brotherly love and united prayer. He noted that those who reach out to their neighbors in prayer help to create a united community. “Fraternal love comes with a sense of mutual responsibility; therefore if my brother is at fault against me, I must use charity towards him and, first of all, speak to him personally.”

Miguel Aranguren, Spanish author and journalist, discovered that St Josemaria was always young. "I realized that youth isn't a question of years, it's having a heart that's in love."

The Prelate focuses this month on the figure of Abraham, who "came to know God so well over time that Holy Scripture, when giving his eulogy, says he was a 'friend of God.'"

Lucia, a young mother and former bank executive in Hong Kong, has organized numerous book sales for the writings of Saint Josemaría at parishes all around the city.

Ruth Pakaluk, a mother of six, pro-life leader and Catholic convert, died from breast cancer at the age of 41. A recently published book gives a glimpse into her short but fruitful life.