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3 Microhistories about the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross
The historian Santiago Martínez talks about three early members of the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross, founded by Saint Josemaría in 1943. Today its members number more than 4,000 clergy all around the world.
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(Translation of the transcript of a podcast that can be found here.)
In 1943 Saint Josemaría founded the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross, made up exclusively of clergy and intrinsically united to Opus Dei. Until then, only lay men and women were connected with Opus Dei. In short, ordinary people. To help them better, priests of Opus Dei were needed who knew and lived its message, coming from the lay members of the Work. Hence the first members of the Priestly Society were numerary members. That is, celibate men of Opus Dei who were ordained priests and to whom the founder entrusted pastoral duties.
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Five priests, two nuns, three laypeople kidnapped in Haiti
People pray during Mass in 2015 outside Sacred Heart Church in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Five priests, two nuns and three laypeople were kidnapped in Haiti April 11, 2021. (CNS/Bob Roller)
By Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY The latest victims of rampant kidnappings in Haiti are five priests, two nuns and three laypeople who were abducted together on their way to a parish near the capital of Port-au-Prince early April 11.
Kidnapping cases happen almost daily in Haiti, which has been experiencing increasing insecurity, political turmoil and gang violence; it is the poorest country in the Americas.
Hans Küng (Photo by picture-alliance/MaxPPP)
To this very day, I still don t know how he got my mobile phone number.
But I do remember that morning in January 2009 as if it were only yesterday. The phone rang and the voice on the other end of the line said, Robert Mickens, this is Hans Küng.
I was shocked, quite frankly. My only other encounter with the famous Swiss theologian was also over the telephone. But it was a call I made to him from my landline in Rome. That was in September 2005 while putting together an article for