March 5th, 1960 St. Josemaría is received for the first time by Pope John XXIII.
St Josemaría told the Pope “[In our Work, all men, catholic or not, have always found a home]”. The Pope would laugh in excitement as he knew that since 1950 the Holy See had authorized the Work to admit as cooperators non-catholics and even non-Christians. When the hearing ended, the Pope confided to Mons. Montini (later Pope Paul VI) that st. Josemaría’s explanations about the spirit of the work had opened to him "horizons of apostolate beyond imagination".
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