El Mundo Interview with Charlie Cox

As we look forward to the release of There be Dragons in the United States, the movie has already become the second most viewed movie this year in Spain. Behind the untouchable Torrente, this story related to the founder of the Work has already taken [...]
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User-friendly evangelization

The head of the St Josemaria Institute sees Roland Joffé’s new movie There Be Dragons as a “user-friendly” way of evangelizing, following the recommendations of Blessed John Paul II. Why is the St. Josemaria Institute promoting the movie? The St. Josemaria Institute is a not-for-profit [...]
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United States

Estados Unidos Communications Office. Prelature of Opus Dei B. Finnerty 330 Riverside Drive New York, NY 10025 Tel: (212) 532-3570 Fax: (646) 742-2780 press@opusdei.org
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“There Be Dragons” Lands U.S. Distribution- Opens May 6, 2011

Joffé’s film is set against the background of the horrors of the Spanish Civil War and the life of a canonised saint, Josemaría Escrivá, the founder of Opus Dei. In this film there is a very open mixture of fact and fiction. ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATED DIRECTOR [...]
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Midtown Educational Foundation

Metro Achievement Center is a youth education center run by Midtown Educational Foundation. Pupils there are from majority Hispanic and Afro-American backgrounds, coming from the most deprived parts of Chicago.
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The Early Days of Opus Dei in Cambridge (U.S.)

Abstract: This documentary account is a sequel to “The Early Days of Opus Dei in Boston… (1946-1956)”, which appeared in Vol. 1 (2007) of Studia et Documenta . It tells of a series of apartments across the Charles River in Cambridge that preceded the opening [...]
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The late Josefina Magno, MD, hero to terminally sick patients and their families

Probably the most renowned woman in Opus Dei in the United States was the late Josefina Magno, M.D., widely regarded as one of the founders of the hospice movement in the United States. Hospice care gives patients with terminal illnesses and their families the support [...]
Tags: Suffering, Sickness, Opus Dei, Work, Women, US, supernumerary

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TV Programs on Saint Josemaria

The television channel EWTN is showing a number of programs about St. Josemaria around his feastday, June 26. *PASSIONATELY LOVING THE WORLD: ORDINARY AMERICANS LIVING THE SPIRITUALITY OF ST. JOSEMARIA* 0:30 This insightful look at the spirituality of Opus Dei and its Founder Saint Josemaría Escrivá, [...]
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New research on the history of Opus Dei

The fourth number of Studia et Documenta (2010), a journal written mainly in Spanish and Italian about the history of Opus Dei and its founder St Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer, has just come out. The theme of one section of this issue is educational initiatives [...]
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Masses of St Josemaria around the world 2010

The feast of Saint Josemaría Escrivá, Founder of Opus Dei, is celebrated in the Catholic Church on June 26. The following are details of Masses of Saint Josemaria which will be said on or around that date in different countries. Confessions will be heard before [...]
Tags: June 26, The Netherlands, Australia, Ireland, Kenya, India, New Zealand, Philippines, Cameroun, Canada, China, US, Malta, Singapore, UK, South Africa, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda