The Catholic organization Opus Dei was born amid conspiracy theories. Its founder, Josemaría Escrivá, had struggled to win ...

Founded on Oct. 2, 1928, by Spanish priest Father Josemaría Escrivá, Opus Dei was a movement borne of Escrivá’s vision to help lay Catholics understand the baptismal calling of holiness and ...

Opus Dei was founded in 1928 by Josemaría Escrivá, a Spanish Roman Catholic priest who said he had received a vision of its creation from God. Escrivá maintained throughout his life that the ...

The founder of Opus Dei was a priest, Josemaría Escrivá, now Saint Josemaría, who envisioned a lay brotherhood of men who would engage in the Work of God, a brotherhood that ultimately thrived ...

Opus Dei was founded in Spain in 1928; today, it has 84,000 members in 80 countries. For many, the group first gained wide attention when it was portrayed in Dan Brown's best-selling novel ...

Much of this stems from a statement by Opus Dei's founder, Spanish priest Josemaría Escrivá. In 1975 he was quoted as saying "...we must be a little crazy ...you must kill yourselves for ...

Mr Valero, who joined Opus Dei at the age of 16 after seeing a sermon by its founder, Josemaría Escrivá, said the organisation should welcome the enormous success of the book and the likely ...