Opus Dei reported that he has not received a letter from Pope Leo XIV about the process of adapting his statutes, leaving the passage of news that holds the opposite and has circulated in recent days.
“Recently, news has circulated falsely that Opus Dei has received a letter from Pope Leo XIV related to the process of adaptation of the statutes. For this, it seems appropriate to clarify that such a letter has not been received,” says a communication of the Opus Dei International Communication Office of May 31.
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“We take the opportunity to point out that we continue working with the Holy See in a spirit of trust and unity,” adds the text.
On May 14, only six days after being elected and four days before the inauguration of his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV received the prelate and maximum leader of Opus Dei, Mons. Fernando Ocáriz, who arrived accompanied by his vicar, Mons. Mariano Fazio.
“The Holy Father, among other things, asked about the current study of the statutes of the Prelature. Leo XIV listened with great interest the explanations given to him,” said the website Del opus day.
According to the text, it was “a brief encounter, in which the Pope expressed his closeness and his love.”
The process of reviewing the statutes of the work, as its members call Opus Dei, had to postpone after the death of Pope Francis on April 21, two days before the General Congress of the Prelature in Rome began.
The event would present the final draft that would be delivered to the Vatican, but given the circumstance of the death of the Holy Father, the participants focused on the renewal of the positions of the central council and the general advice.
Francisco had asked Opus Dei to modify its statutes through motu proprio To make a charisma of July 14, 2022.
According to Opus Deithis process has had two stages. One in 2023 who collected contributions from all members of the work; and a second in which a group of experts from the Vatican have intervened, specifically from the clergy; and another from Opus Dei that elaborated, together, a proposal of statutes.
After the death of Pope Francis, the following steps to follow with respect to the statutes of Opus Dei are now in the hands of Leo XIV.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.