The apostolic administrator of the prelature was eventually released unharmed. |
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The authorities of the prelature must totally avoid even so much as giving advice on these matters. |
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Opus Dei, as a personal prelature, forms part of the Church's hierarchical structure. |
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Thomas is a member of Opus Dei, the personal prelature of the Pope comprised of lay persons. |
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All the faithful of the prelature are responsible for providing for their own personal and family needs by means of their ordinary work. |
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How is it possible that it requires a specific vocation to be a member of a prelature? |
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After a further period of at least a year, the person can be temporarily incorporated into the prelature through a formal contractual declaration, which is renewable annually. |
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These are the elements that led to giving Opus Dei the specific juridical form of a personal prelature. |
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Recently the Vatican announced the offer of a personal prelature, a sort of nonterritorial diocese, to reincorporate the traditionalists. |
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Pope John Paul II made Opus Dei a personal prelature in 1982, and he named Don Alvaro its first prelate. |
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Bishop Martin Jumoad of Isabela told CNS that fighting had reached remote towns of his prelature located between Zamboanga and Sulu. |
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In the month just gone by, I made two brief trips, one to England and the other to Austria, to encourage the faithful and the cooperators of the Prelature in their apostolic work in the service of the Church. |
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He also had a chance to visit the work being carried out to install a new reredos in the Church of El Señor San José, which was entrusted to priests of the Prelature some years ago by the Archbishop of Seville. |
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Numerary assistants dedicate themselves principally to the domestic responsibilities in the centers of the Prelature, which constitute for them their ordinary professional work. |
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