Opus Dei: Could the Water Have Been Even Colder?
• Cardinal Ghirlanda SJ has been a sworn enemy of the Opus Dei’s juridical configuration for decades.
• Praedicate Evangelium has moved the Opus Dei from the Bishops’ Congregation to Clergy.
• Ghirlanda considers the Opus Dei "a church within the Church" that John Paul II promoted too much.
• The original plan was to put the Opus Dei under the Dicastery for the [non-existent] New Evangelisation.
• There is a good relationship between Francis and Opus Dei Vicar General, the Argentinean Mariano Fazio.
• The Opus Dei fears that Francis could appoint a commissioner or turn it into a priestly fraternity and its lay members into external collaborators.
• After the July Motu Proprio, the Opus Dei must modify its statutes.
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