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Opus Dei may have to seek new status under canon law, says spokesman

September 11, 2023

ROME – A leading member of Opus Dei and its spokesman in the UK has suggested that in light of revisions made recently by Pope Francis to the nature of “personal prelatures”, a status Opus Dei has held under Church law since 1982, the group may be forced to seek another category that better reflects

Vatican announces changes to canon law which may affect Opus Dei

August 09, 2023

The 90,000 lay members and roughly 2,000 priests of Opus Dei, a worldwide Catholic organisation which is currently the church’s lone personal prelature, learned on Tuesday that Pope Francis has changed canon law in a way that may somehow affect them, though it is unclear exactly how the changes to canons 295 and 296 of the

Merely Catholic Podcast – Sacred or Sinister: the Pope’s Opus Dei initiative

July 29, 2022

Opus Dei found unwelcome fame and undeserved notoriety at the hand of thr infamous but hugely successful novelist Dan Brown. It has returned to the public stage this week, not in the form of the imaginative parody the Da Vinci Code presented, but because of the pope’s most recent letter. Entitled ‘Ad charisma tuendum’ “For