Posted on 10/15/2022 5:53:09 PM PDT by marshmallow
Rome Newsroom, Oct 5, 2022 / 22:00 pm The prelate of Opus Dei, Monsignor Fernando Ocáriz, announced in a letter Oct. 5 that he will convene an extraordinary general congress in the first half of 2023 to adapt the prelature’s statutes to the instructions in the motu proprio Ad charisma tuendum.
The head of Opus Dei made the announcement to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the canonization of the founder of Opus Dei, St. Josemaría Escrivá.
Ocáriz explained in the letter that the Dicastery for the Clergy has advised the general council and the central advisory of Opus Dei not to limit themselves in this process “to considering what refers to the dependency of the prelature on this dicastery.”
Thus, he encouraged proposing “other possible minor adjustments to the statutes” in light of the motu proprio and to spend “without haste all the necessary time.”
On July 22, the Vatican published Ad charisma tuendum (To safeguard the charism), in which Pope Francis ordered a reform of Opus Dei.
Among the pope’s provisions are that the prelate who directs Opus Dei from now on will no longer be a bishop; the institution must adapt its statutes and present an annual report; and it will no longer answer to the dicastery for bishops but to the dicastery for the clergy.
Ocáriz wrote that since the reform is an initiative of the Holy See, convening the general congresses planned for the modification of the statutes is not mandatory.
However, he has decided to convene an extraordinary general congress “with that precise and limited purpose” that will take place in the first half of 2023.
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Oh, oh!
Let’s see now. One who has apostasized from the Catholic Church to join a church that allows up to three marriages with no spouses dying. And that same church approves of artificial contraception with the approval of a “confessor”.
And he’s throwing stones at the One, True Church he deserted?
Not sure what you’re getting at or who you’re referring to.
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