Citizenship

The world awaits us. Yes! We love the world passionately because God has taught us to: Sic Deus dilexit mundum... — God so loved the world. And we love it because it is there that we fight our battles in a most beautiful war of [...]
Tags: Citizenship, Responsibility, Society

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Making study into prayer

Murielle Heena A. Catabui, Philippines: St Josemaria showed us that we can be saints by being ourselves – being very good students and very good citizens.
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University of the Andes, Chile

Serving with one’s intellect At the feet of the Andes mountain-range in Chile stands the campus of the University of the Andes. It was founded in 1989 by a group of academics and businessmen who were convinced that love for work done well, as preached by [...]
Tags: Citizenship, culture, Youth, University, Society

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Cahir bronze plaque to commemorate 1959 visit by St Josemaría Escrivá

On Tuesday 18 August 2009, Mr Liam Ahern, South Tipperary County Chairman, unveiled a bronze plaque on the external wall of the library in Cahir’s market square by Irish sculptor Dony MacManus. The plaque commemorates the visit to the town on that day fifty years ago [...]
Tags: Passionately Loving the World, Citizenship, Opus Dei, Ireland

Testimony

The Church’s social teaching will get across when people practice it

Fr. Enrique Colom lectures in moral theology (justice and the social teaching of the Church) at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome. He first met St Josemaria in October 1960, a few months after joining Opus Dei. Over the following ten years he [...]
Tags: Citizenship, Justice, Solidarity, Work, Consistency

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The freedom of the laity

One characteristic of all Christian life, no matter what form it takes, is the 'dignity and freedom of the children of God'. Throughout your teaching, you have insistently defended the freedom of the laity. To what exactly do you refer? I refer precisely to the personal [...]
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The influence of Opus Dei in Spain

Some people, precisely because of the presence of laymen of Opus Dei in influential positions in Spanish society [in 1967], speak of the influence of Opus Dei in Spain. Can you explain what this influence is? Opus Dei’s influence in civil society is not of a [...]
Tags: Apostolate, Citizenship, Opus Dei, Politics

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The mission of women in the Church and the world

Not infrequently, in speaking of the laity, people tend to ignore women and thus they give a confused picture of the role of women in the Church. Similarly people tend to understand the social emancipation of women simply as the participation of women in public [...]
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Second Harambee 2002 International Award: Communicating Africa

Harambee 2002 was founded on the occasion of Saint Josemaría Escrivá’s canonization. Its aim is to support educational and social projects in sub-Saharan Africa. The Second Harambee 2002 International Prize for Audiovisual Communication “Communicating Africa” is dedicated to documentaries and television reports. The scope [...]
Tags: Canonization, Citizenship, culture, Solidarity, Harambee

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University of Toronto Congress about Saint Josemaría

Inspired by Saint Josemaría’s message, a number of different people who are working to improve the human and spiritual conditions of the poor met for the second year running for a conference called “Sowers of Peace and Joy” held at Brennan Hall, University of Toronto, [...]
Tags: Joy, Citizenship, Peace, Solidarity