Opus Dei

450 gather for conference setting the record straight on The Da Vinci Code

Gabriela Duclaud, early member of the Prelature, dies in San Francisco on April 19, 2006

A preview of the video “Passionately Loving the World: Ordinary Americans Living the Spirituality of Saint Josemaria” was shown April 18 to members of the Religion Communicators Council, in a meeting held at the Opus Dei U.S. headquarters in New York.

We present a short video clip of the audience Benedict XVI had with the participants of the UNIV congress 2006. Duration: 2´22´. Download: 12MB: The download requires RealPlayer

Each year during Holy Week in Rome, an international congress for students is organized with the help of the Prelature of Opus Dei. Pope Benedict met with participants on April 10.

Opus Dei launched an all-new version of www.opusdei.org on March 22. During 2005, Opus Dei’s website was visited by more than 3 million people.

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On February 19, Pope Benedict XVI said that "intolerance and violence can never be justified in response to provocation because they are incompatible with the sacred principles of religion."

The World Day of the Sick was celebrated on February 11. Included here is the message of Benedict XVI as well as a testimony of John Paul II and a testimony of Saint Josemaría about the Christian meaning of sickness.

Given below is a summary of Benedict XVI's first Encyclical, entitled "Deus caritas est" (God is love). Dated December 25, Solemnity of the Nativity of the Lord, it considers the question of Christian love.