Opus Dei

On February 19, the Archbishop of Madrid opened the cause of canonization for Paquita Dominguez and Tomas Alvira, a married couple with 8 children.

We offer 40 short excerpts from Benedict XVI’s messages for Lent since occupying the chair of Peter, with a link to his Lenten message for this year.

A seminar at the Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre to explore the significance of this divine journey on 14th February.

February 14 commemorates the start of Opus Dei's apostolic work with women in 1930 and the beginning of the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross in 1943.

Haseen S. Aswani, a Hindu, is a student of pharmacy and the dean of the Alsajara University Residence in Granada, Spain, a corporate work of Opus Dei for women

María Faraone is an artist who has painted a portrait of Saint Josemaría. Her paintings are exhibited in New York, Moscow, Paris, Barcelona and Buenos Aires. She has been a Cooperator of Opus Dei for more than twenty years.

Uniting our setbacks and sufferings to Christ's self-giving on the Cross is always fruitful, the Prelate reminds us in his letter this month.

Benin is one of the smallest countries in the African continent. There are no centres of Opus Dei there yet, but some undergraduates are already receiving weekly classes of Christian formation in the capital.

VIDEO: an engineering grad student talks about discovering Catholicism and Opus Dei, what attracts him as a non-Christian to religion, and what he has learned living in an Opus Dei student residence.

The web page of the Information Office of Opus Dei can now be accessed on mobile phones and PDAs in 30 languages.