Opus Dei

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.

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.

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.

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.

A statement and documentation concerning false allegations that appear occasionally claiming that St. Josemaria was a ‘holocaust denier’, or in some degree sympathetic to Hitler.

Leire and her husband Robert planned to build “a bright and cheerful home,” an expression she learned from St. Josemaría. Their two daughters with Down syndrome have helped them to do so.

Abel Albino is a doctor and founder of CONIN (Cooperative for Infant Nutrition) in Mendoza, Argentina. Thinking of the future, he often remembers St. Josemaría’s words: “Two plus two is four, but two plus two plus God…”

Mondo TV, an Italian production company, has aired a 70 minute animated film on St. Josemaría's early life. Here is a second short clip (03'01'').