Word: escriva
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...Opus Dei has nothing whatever to do with politics," President-general Escriva has written. "It is absolutely foreign to any political, economic, ideological or cultural tendency or group. The only thing it demands of its members is that they lead a Christian life...
...Spanish lawyer-turned-priest, Msgr. Jose M. Escriva founded Opus Dei in 1928 to counter what he saw as growing secularism and anti-clericalism among Spanish intellectuals. As president-general, Escriva now controls the association from Rome. In 1947, the Vatican officially recognized Opus Dei as the Church's first secular institute...
...Opus Dei," Escriva has written, "was born to tell men and women of every country and of every condition, race, language, milicu, and state of life-single, married and priests-that they can love and serve God without giving up their ordinary work, their family or their normal social relations...
...Escriva published The Way, a collection of 999 principles by which members of Opus Dei are to live. It has sold more than two million copies in over 60 languages...
...professional role of women is not skirted in the least in Opus Dei," Schmitt said in a recent interview. President-general Escriva, however, believes the woman's most important place is in the home. Escriva has written, "In the care she takes of her husband and children, a woman fulfills the most indispensable part of her mission...