Studia et Documenta: One Hundred Years of St. Josemaría's Priesthood

issue 19 of the journal Studia et Documenta, corresponding to the year 2025, has been published. This new submission includes original research papers on different aspects of the life of the founder, the institution and its members.

The Monographic section deals with the 100th anniversary of the priestly ordination of St. Josemaría Escrivá (1925-2025). Five researchers analyze the ecclesial, social and academic context in which his vocation took place. Juan Ramón Royo describes the archdiocese of Saragossa during the 1920s, marked by instability after the assassination of Cardinal Soldevila and by religious B , while at the same time the first signs of crisis were evident. Santiago Casas delves into the government of that archdiocese during the pontificate of Cardinal Soldevila (1902-1923) and stresses that it was there that Escrivá was formed as a priest, received holy orders and assumed his first pastoral assignments, acquiring an internship vision of ecclesiastical government.

Juan Francisco Baltar Rodríguez looks at the University of Saragossa in the 1920s, where Escrivá studied law, and characterizes the university as being somewhere between stagnation and pedagogical, social and cultural renewal. Fernando Crovetto examines the Social School of Saragossa (1907-1929), a pioneer in the dissemination of the Social Doctrine of the Church, some of whose members class the young Josemaría during his law programs of study and influenced his training. José Luis González Gullón reconstructs his seminar years, showing how his priestly vocation was forged in a climate of family and ecclesial difficulties, and how those years marked him decisively.

The section Studi e Note brings together five contributions. Onésimo Díaz sketches a portrait of Florentino Pérez Embid, who combined academic and political life, influenced by St. Josemaría's message of sanctification of his work . Cosimo di Fazio and Alfredo Méndiz offer an overview of the development Opus Dei in Italy during the pontificate of Pius XII, with suggestions for future research. Federico M. Requena analyzes the perceptions of Opus Dei in the United States in the 1950s and sample a wide diversity of social, religious and political interpretations. Carlos Veci studies Víctor García Hoz, a Spanish pedagogue of Opus Dei and promoter of personalized Education , within the framework of the social changes of the 1960s. This section closes with an article by Rafael Jiménez Cataño on the use of the Mexican colloquialism "ni modo" in Guadalupe Ortiz de Landázuri, as an expression of the charisma of Opus Dei in an intercultural context.

The Documentazione section includes two collections of letters. One is edited and edited by Antonio Rodríguez Tovar and contains the correspondence between Josemaría Escrivá and the writer Ernestina de Champourcin (1959-1974). The second, position by Nicolás Álvarez de las Asturias and Gonzalo Barbed Martín, presents letters between Josemaría Escrivá and the Spanish bishop Casimiro Morcillo, written between 1938 and 1971. The selection allows us to appreciate their friendship, spiritual harmony and ecclesial partnership over more than three decades.

The Notiziario section includes news about recent academic events in which researchers from the St. Josemaría Escrivá Historical Institute and the Center for programs of study Josemaría Escrivá have participated.

Finally, the journal offers a bibliographical section with reviews of recent publications, which complement the whole of this issue.

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