Francisco Fernández Carvajal or Francis Fernandez (born 1938 in Granada) is a Spanish Roman Catholic priest in the Opus Dei Prelature and author of several books.
He is best known for his seven volume work Hablar con Dios (In Conversation with God), which has sold over two million copies in several languages, including Spanish, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Croatian, Dutch, Romanian, Slovakian and Polish.
[1] He is a graduate in history from the University of Navarra, and holds a doctorate in Canon law from the Angelicum in Rome.
In 1961 Carvajal earned a Doctorate in Canon Law from the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum with a dissertation entitled Evolución historico-juridica de la autonomia interna en las congregaciones religiosas.
Carvajal was an editor of the magazine Revista Palabra [1] for over 10 years, from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s.