Opus Dei is currently present in almost 70 countries and is made up of more than 93,000 lay members, of whom 57% are women and 43% men, in addition to 2,095 priests. A Service of EWTN News, Inc.

Opus Dei's image problems did not begin with Brown's novel and likely will not end with the Howard-Hanks film. Ever since it was established in 1928, the organization has been controversial within ...

To put it bluntly, Opus Dei has a big problem. In the nearly 100 years since its founding, countless stories have emerged about leaders, priests, and lay members in the Catholic Church’s sole ...

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 14, 2025 / 15:00 pm. Opus Dei, the nearly century-old Rome-based personal prelature, has released a lengthy response to the October 2024 book “Opus,” accusing ...

The prelate of Opus Dei said members "accept with sincere filial obedience" the slight modifications Pope Francis made to the section of the Code of Canon Law dealing with personal prelatures.

Opus Dei officials say that 70 percent of their members are supernumeraries like Patti Lechner who do not practice extreme corporal mortification. They do however, ...

Through it all, Opus Dei sought the protection of powerful men. Not long after Franco’s death in 1975 (the same year Escrivá died), it was a new pope, John Paul II, who provided the ...

Lima Newsroom, Aug 24, 2024 / 08:30 am. During his recent trip through Latin America, the prelate of Opus Dei, Monsignor Fernando Ocáriz, gave an interview to the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio in ...

Opus Dei provided them with housing, food, and recreational outings. Technically a personal prelature, Opus Dei was founded by Escriva in 1928. It has some 90,000 members in 70 countries.