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“I’ve never asked the prelate for advice on what to do,” he said. THerranz added that he has never discussed Vatican business with the prelate of Opus Dei. I receive orders from him, the pope, and I execute them.” My prelate is not the prelate of Opus Dei. “In all these years, I’ve only gone once to the Office of Labor, not to see Poles but because there was a question I had to deal with. “There’s no lobby, no kind of ‘white masonry.’ I’ve heard these things, but no,” he said. In a 2005 interview, Herranz, who had worked in the Roman Curia for 44 years at the time, denied that there was an “Opus Dei block” within the Vatican. He staffed the commission on the “Discipline of the Clergy,” which prepared the decree Presbyterorum Ordinis on priestly life and ministry at Vatican II. THerranz, who knew Escriva personally, is a longtime veteran of the Roman Curia. Opus Dei has some 85,000 members worldwide. In the internal politics of Catholicism in the period following the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), Opus Dei has come to be seen as a leading symbol of the church’s conservative wing. Its spiritual aim is the sanctification of everyday work. Josemaria Escriva, Opus Dei is the lone “Personal Prelature” in the Catholic Church. While both resignations were for reasons of age, and while Benedict XVI chose to appoint another Opus Dei member, Spanish Monsignor Juan Ignacio Arrieta Ochoa de Chinchetru, as the new number two official in the Council for Legislative Texts, the departures of Herranz and Navarro-Valls nevertheless represent a step back from the high water mark of Opus Dei’s influence in the Vatican under John Paul’s pontificate.įounded in Spain in 1928 by St. Opus Dei’s other high-profile Vatican loss came with the July resignation of Spanish layman Joaquin Navarro-Valls as Vatican spokesperson, who was replaced by Italian Jesuit Fr. Coccopalmerio becomes an archbishop upon the appointment.

Herranz, who will turn 77 in March, was replaced by Auxiliary Bishop Francesco Coccopalmerio of Milan, a protégé of Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, the former archbishop of Milan.

The last remaining Opus Dei official who serves as the top official in a Vatican department is Giò Maria Poles, a layman who runs the Labor Office of the Holy See, in effect its personnel office. With the resignation of Cardinal Julian Herranz as President of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts on Thursday, Opus Dei has now lost two of three positions as heads of Vatican offices it once held under Pope John Paul II.