:* Opus Dei universities

* Controversies about Opus Dei

* 1928 – The " Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God ", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded by Saint Josemaría Escrivá.

* Chapter 47 requires the abbot to call the brothers to the " work of God " ( Opus Dei ) in choir, and to appoint chanters and readers.

* October 2 – Saint Josemaria Escriva founds Opus Dei.

Their perspective informs Robert Hutchison's 1997 book Their Kingdom Come: Inside the Secret World of Opus Dei.

Having signed for Mute Records, the group started recording their third studio album, Opus Dei, with Slavko Avsenik Jr.

The usage of Nazi symbols and the name " Opus Dei " caused the Catholic institution of the same name to sue the group but the case was eventually decided in favour of Laibach.

The band began their tradition of cover songs in 1987 with the album Opus Dei, where their sound changed again.

Laibach recorded two new interpretations of the song, which they titled Leben Heißt Leben, and Opus Dei.

The first of these, the opening song on the Laibach album Opus Dei ( 1987 ), was sung in German.

Opus Dei retained some of the original song's English lyrics, but was delivered in a musical style that left the meaning of the lyrics open to further interpretation.

The Opus Dei album also features a cover of Queen's " One Vision " with lyrics translated into German under the title Geburt einer Nation, revealing the ambiguity of lines like " One race one hope / One real decision ".

On this album they also included an anthem for their NSK State in Time, which is based on their song The Great Seal from the Opus Dei album.

* Opus Dei ( Mute Rec., 1987, London )

* Opus Dei ( Mute Rec., 1987, London )

* Opus Dei ( disambiguation )

* Opus Dei UK headquarters

Saint Josemaría Escrivá, the founder of Opus Dei

Opus Dei, formally known as The Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei (), is an institution of the Catholic Church that teaches that everyone is called to holiness and that ordinary life is a path to sanctity.

Opus Dei is Latin for Work of God ; hence the organization is often referred to by members and supporters as the Work.

Founded in Spain in 1928 by the Catholic priest St. Josemaría Escrivá, Opus Dei was given final Catholic Church approval in 1950 by Pope Pius XII.

In 1982, by decision of Pope John Paul II, the Catholic Church made it into a personal prelature — that is, the jurisdiction of its own bishop covers the persons in Opus Dei wherever they are, rather than geographical dioceses.

About 70 % of Opus Dei members live in their private homes, leading traditional Catholic family lives with secular careers, while the other 30 % are celibate, of whom the majority live in Opus Dei centres.

Opus Dei organizes training in Catholic spirituality applied to daily life.

Opus Dei has been described as the most controversial force within the Catholic Church.

As a part of the Roman Catholic Church, Opus Dei has been open to the same criticisms as Catholicism in general — for example female members of Opus Dei cannot become priests or prelates.

Sociologists Peter Berger and Samuel Huntington suggest that Opus Dei is involved in " a deliberate attempt to construct an alternative modernity ," one that engages modern culture while at the same time is resolutely loyal to Catholic traditions.

Van Biema of Time magazine emphasises Opus Dei's Spanish roots as a source of misunderstandings in the Anglo-Saxon world, and suggests that as the United States becomes more Hispanic, controversies about Opus Dei ( and similar Catholic organizations ) will decrease.

In The Da Vinci Code, Opus Dei is portrayed as a Catholic organization that is led into a sinister international conspiracy.

* Opus Dei: An Objective Look Behind the Myths and Reality of the Most Controversial Force in the Catholic Church

Opus Dei: an Objective Look Behind the Myths and Reality of the Most Controversial Force in the Catholic Church, Doubleday Religion.

Saint Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer ( 9 January 1902 – 26 June 1975 ; also known as José María or Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer y Albás, born José María Mariano Escriba Albás ) was a Roman Catholic priest from Spain who founded Opus Dei, an organization of laypeople and priests dedicated to the teaching that everyone is called to holiness and that ordinary life is a path to sanctity.

Opus Dei member Father C. John McCloskey III said Hanssen also occasionally attended the daily noontime Mass at the Catholic Information Center in downtown Washington, D. C. After going to prison, Hanssen claimed he periodically admitted his espionage to priests in confession.

In western Catholicism, canonical hours may also be called offices, since they refer to the official set of prayer of the Roman Catholic Church that is known variously as the Divine Office ( from the Latin officium divinum meaning " divine service " or " divine duty "), and the Opus Dei ( meaning in Latin, " Work of God ").

For purposes of comparison with mainstream Catholic organisations, the Knights of Columbus in the United States are stated to have 1. 7 million members, the Neocatechumenal Way is reported to have around 1 million members, and Opus Dei is claimed to have 87, 000 members.

Opus Dei ( Catholic ) established Rosemont secondary school off Temple Hill around 1970.

" At the university level this process also prevailed, as Ibanez Martin, Catholic propagandists, and the Opus Dei ensured professorships were offered only to the most faithful.

Lavín is a devout Roman Catholic and also a supernumerary member of the Prealature of Opus Dei.

It is doubtful if all the monuments there attributed to him are of his own hands ; there is no question about the tomb of the Florentine Francesco Tornabuoni in the Church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, the remains of the monument to Pope Paul II in the crypt of St. Peter's, and the beautiful little marble tabernacle for the holy oils in St. Maria in Trastevere bears the inscription Opus Mini.

Several contraceptive methods were also legalized, all measures that were strongly opposed by the Roman Catholic Church, as well as the Catholic organization Opus Dei.

Some religious orders within the Catholic Church use the cilice as a form of " corporal mortification ", as well as some lay people, notably some faithful of the Prelature of Opus Dei.

Magnum Opus: The Building of the Schoenstein Organ at the Conference Center by John Longhurst, retired Senior Tabernacle Organist, examines the concept, approval, design, and construction of the Conference center organ seen during general conferences of the Church.

The spiritual and doctrinal formation given in the University is entrusted to Opus Dei, a Personal prelature of the Catholic Church.

* Opus 78, 1897, Westfield MA, St. Mary's Church, the oldest Casavant still in use in the United States, orig.

* Opus 550, 1915, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, St Paul's Anglican Church, 106 stops, Specification and Description from Casavant:

* Opus 700, 1917, Boston, MA, Emmanuel Episcopal Church, 137 stops, Relocation to an organ museum in Gulangyu Island, China in 2008:, Original Specification:

* Opus 1608, 1938, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Saint James United Church, 64 stops, Rebuild of Wadsworth 1888 and Warren 1909.

* Opus 1659, 1940, Flushing, Long Island, New York, Saint Andrew Avellino Church ( Roman Catholic ) 43 stops, Specification:

* Opus 2025, 1950, Weston, Ontario, Canada, Central United Church

* Opus 2133, 1953, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, St. Peter's Church

* Opus 2576, 1960, Denver, CO, First Church Christ, Scientist, 69 ranks, 51 stops, Specification:

* Opus 2666, 1965, State College, PA, Grace Lutheran Church, 33 ranks and 2048 pipes, Specification:

* Opus 2670, 1963, Dayton, OH, Westminster Presbyterian Church.