Francis Dynamites Opus Dei
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Opus Dei is the only personal prelature in the Church. It's distinctive feature compared to priestly societies are the so called numeraries, consecrated lay people who belong to the group.
In the future, this people are left out of the canonical structure. According to the new canons, “the laity can dedicate themselves to the apostolic works of the personal prelature; but the form of this organic cooperation and the main duties and rights related to it will be conveniently determined in the statutes”.
Francis thus crashes the legal relationship between the laity and the clerical association Opus Dei. It is a triumph of Cardinal Ghirlanda SJ and mainly his vision of Opus Dei.
Francis' stab in the back comes after Opus Dei has been submissively loyal to every pope for decades and gave just recently massive support to Francis’ World Youth Day in Lisbon.
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