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The names of Opus Dei directors and priests are available in official Catholic journals and Opus Dei's official bulletin, Romana. Opus Dei maintains lists of cooperators , who are not considered by Opus Dei to be members, and who do not even have to be Roman Catholics, but who agree to assist with the work of Opus Dei in any of various ways.
Opus Dei (Latin for 'Work of God') is an institution of the Catholic Church that was founded in Spain in 1928 by Josemaría Escrivá.Its stated mission is to help its lay and clerical members seek holiness in their everyday occupations and societies.
According to the Apostolic Constitution Ut sit issued by John Paul II: “From its beginnings, this (Opus Dei) has in fact striven, not only to illuminate with new lights the mission of the laity in the Church and in society, but also to put it into practice; it has also endeavored to put into practice the teaching of the universal call to sanctity, and to promote at all levels of society the ...
It has become one of the largest existing Catholic organization for lay faithful in the Catholic Church, existing in 90 countries. [3] Opus Dei is formally known as the Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei. Since its establishment, numerous faithful have earned a reputation for holiness and eventually canonized or beatified.
Church of Sweden: 11.41 Sweden: Lutheran: FY2012. Largely of assets that are in forests, buildings and securities. Another 3.07 billion as annual income. [10] Trinity Church: 6.0 United States: Anglican [11] [12] [13] Opus Dei (part of the Catholic Church) 3.0 Italy: Catholicism [14] Church of Scientology: 2.0 United States: Scientology [15 ...
Pope John XXIII lauded Opus Dei and said on 5 March 1960 that it opens up "unsuspected horizons of apostolate," while Paul VI said that the Work is "an expression of the perennial youth of the Church, fully open to the exigencies of a modern apostolate." (Handwritten letter to Msgr. Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, 1 October 1964)
The worldwide revenue of Opus Dei is that of a mid-sized American diocese. He also says that Opus Dei has only 39 bishops out of the 4,564 in the world. And there are only 20 members out of 3920 working in the Vatican. [6] As to real estate holdings, Opus Dei's holdings are notably inferior to those of the religious orders, says V. Messori.
In 2015 the school was visited by Lord and Lady Windsor, both of whom are supporters of the PACT Educational Trust. [7] The school relocated to Shelley House on Chelsea Embankment in 2019. Shelley House had been used by the Opus Dei Catholic institution since 1978 for the education of women. [8]