Alvaro del portillo biography of barack obama
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Pope Francis
Head of the Catholic Church since 2013
Pope Francis (Latin: Franciscus; Italian: Francesco; Spanish: Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio;[b] 17 December 1936) is the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State. He is the first pope from the Society of Jesus (the Jesuit Order), the first from the Americas and the Southern Hemisphere, and the first born or raised outside Europe since the 8th-century papacy of the Syrian pope Gregory III.
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Bergoglio was inspired to join the Jesuits in 1958 after recovering from severe illness. He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1969; from 1973 to 1979, he was the Jesuit provincial superior in Argentina. He became the archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998 and was created a cardinal in 2001 by Pope John Paul II. He led the Argentine Church during the December 2001 riots in Argentina; the administrations of Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner considered him to be a political rival.
Following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI on 28 February 2013, a papal conclave elected Bergoglio as his successor on 13 March. He chose Francis as his papal name in honour of Saint Francis of Assisi. Throughout his public life, Francis has been noted for
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How Opus Dei sought finance from Franco: An ‘economic sacrifice slot in the let of Demiurge, the Old country and interpretation New State’
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ECCLESIAE SANCTAE
“At the same time as he established Opus Dei as a personal Prelature with the Apostolic Constitution Ut Sit, St. John Paul II also established that the oratory of Our Lady of Peace should be the Church of the Prelature. Under its altar lie the sacred remains of St. Josemaria. Bl. Alvaro del Portillo officiated at the solemn ceremony of dedication on the 2nd of May 1986, after a number of necessary works had been completed.
Among the images used by Sacred Scripture to speak of the church is one which is especially appropriate today. St. Paul compares it to a building which God has built on earth, making use of the Apostles as instruments. The Lord compared himself to the stone which the builders rejected, but which was made into the cornerstone.
Escriva had prepared for this need of a cathedral church for Opus Dei years before when it was definitively approved as “a little bit of the [whole] Church” herself i.e. by analogy to a diocese. In the 60’s, he prepared what is today a large chapel annexed to the buildings of Cavabianca, the central house of formation of numerary laymen and priests of the Work. Its basilar cornerstone was to be an image of Jesus Christ crucified – case in bronze and gilded – , peaceful, eyes open and l