Opus Dei

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.

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

This is the full text of a July 25, 1978 profile of St. Josemaria Escriva, the founder of Opus Dei, by Cardinal Luciani, who later became Pope John Paul I.

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.

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

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.

A symposium in Chicago on June 28 brought together a group of theologians, philosophers, and other scholars to discuss aspects of the Founder of Opus Dei’s teaching.