#OPUS 2005 CODE#
Over the years Opus Dei has been classified within Church structures in a variety of different ways: as a pious union, a priestly society of common life without vows, a secular institute, and finally, since 1982, as a "personal prelature." At each stage before the final one, Opus Dei's leading thinkers insisted that the existing structures within the 1917 Code of Canon Law, the official body of law for the Catholic Church prior to 1983, were inadequate to reflect the group's true nature. This is precisely what gives Opus Dei its unique character: It is an institution of laypeople and priests together, men and women, sharing the same vocation but playing different roles. In later years Opus Dei has fought similar battles to insist that it is not a "lay movement," because it includes clergy. They find God through the mundane details of daily secular life. Its members remain fully immersed in the world and do not retreat to monasteries or cloisters. Escriva strongly insisted that Opus Dei is not a religious order, thus it is not comparable to the Franciscans or the Dominicans. Though perhaps a bit catty, the joke makes a good point, which is that Opus Dei has sometimes been better at explaining what it is not rather than what it is.
#OPUS 2005 SERIES#
The Tablet of London, a well-known English Catholic publication, recently published a series of jokes about various groups within the Catholic Church, and here's how the one on Opus Dei goes: How many members of Opus Dei does it take to screw in a lightbulb? The answer is, one hundred… one to screw in the bulb, and ninety-nine to chant, "We are not a movement, we are not a movement."
Allen writes for the National Catholic Reporter he is also a Vatican analyst for CNN and NPR. The book is being billed as the first serious journalistic investigation of the highly secretive organization. Vatican reporter John Allen's new book is Opus Dei: An Objective Look Behind the Myths and Reality of the Most Controversial Force in the Catholic Church. Two other real-life events also helped to raise Opus Dei's profile: FBI agent Robert Hanssen, a member of the group, was arrested for spying in 2001 and Pope John Paul II canonized founder Josemaria Escriva as a saint in 2002. The thriller depicted the group as a repository for arcane knowledge and fervent - even dangerous - belief. For many, the group first gained wide attention when it was portrayed in Dan Brown's best-selling novel, The Da Vinci Code. Opus Dei was founded in Spain in 1928 today, it has 84,000 members in 80 countries. But critics and some former members have accused the group of having cult-like practices and promoting a right-wing agenda. Opus Dei is an international lay Catholic group whose core ideal is the sanctification of work. John Allen conducted hundreds of hours of research for his portrait of Opus Dei.
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