Opus Dei

She came from Lastres, a fishing-village in Asturias, Spain. Her name was Azucena Olivar Sanchez, but for us kids she was always “Nanny”.

The driver’s seat in my bus has become a wonderful place for talking about ‘our Father’.

In 1991, Fr. Luis de Moya, an Opus Dei priest, suffered an automobile accident. His life was miraculously saved, but his spine was fractured and he lost all mobility and sensation below the neck. He had to learn to live with an almost unusable body, dependent on others for almost everything.

Ana became pregnant shortly after getting married. At 6 weeks she had a sonogram: "the one filled with hope." The second sonogram, taken at 12 weeks, was "the one filled with doubts," her husband Thomas said. As a radiologist, he was concerned about the size of the growing child's extremities ….

Fr. Joseph was one of the first three priests of Opus Dei, and died with a reputation for holiness in Boston in 1983. John Coverdale has written a brief biography of this exemplary priest.

Isabella Tan, a widow and mother of three young children, tells how she changed when Christ entered her life

An interview with Father Juan Jose Sanchez chaplain of Venezuela's Naval Academy. He lives in Guaira, Venezuela, and is a member of the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross.

What would the Holy Father tell every priest in the world if he could spend a moment with each one? According to the Secretary of the Congregation for the Clergy, Archbishop Mauro Piacenza, Benedict XVI would speak about the priest's identity (03'29").

Jose Ernesto was working his way through university by being a part-time taxi driver, when he started having dizzy spells...

VIDEO: an art historian talks about deciding to be a numerary, his experiences at college, and trying to fit the Opus Dei “norms” into an average day.