Opus Dei

Kinal began in 1961 with a group of bricklayers and carpenters in a poor area of Guatemala City. Today 700 young men are receiving technical training in the school to help them find work that will improve the economic situation of their family.

"I continue to believe in you," said the Pope to more than 700,000 young people in a meeting on May 3 in Madrid. "You are the hope of the Church, no less than of society."

Three new videos of St. Josemaría’s canonization are now available in English, from EWTN, Midwest Theological Forum and Scepter Publishers.

Personal accounts of the October 6 ceremony, press clippings, and homilies from Thanksgiving Masses present the events that surrounded the canonization.

This morning John Paul II exhorted university students, in Rome for the international UNIV Congress, to live with optimism, joy and peace, being understanding towards all.

John Paul II has announced that he will go to Pompeii next October to seek Mary's intercession to bring about peace and justice in the world. The shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary of Pompeii, in the outskirts of Naples, is one of most-visited Marian shrines in Italy.

An account of the canonization Mass, the Mass of thanksgiving, the audience with the Pope, and the appearance by Romanian Orthodox Patriarch Teoctist.

A homily given by Bishop Javier Echevarría, Prelate of Opus Dei, at St. Eugene's Basilica in Rome on October 10, 2002, at the final Mass of thanksgiving for the canonization of Josemaría Escrivá.

Carlos Bordolli of Uruguay recounts his journey from atheism to faith, begun when a coincidence brought St. Josemaría’s “The Way” into his hands.

From January 9, 2002 to January 9, 2003, various events took place to commemorate the centennial year of St. Josemaría’s birth. A summary of the events of the year follows.