The Catholic personal prelature Opus Dei has significantly reduced the scope of its two-week general congress that began this week due to the death of Pope Francis two days before the assembly’s ...

Opus Dei claims that its mission is to help people ... she had been given a cilice—a spiked chain used for self-punishment—and a whip. She was made a numerary assistant, a role involving ...

Thirteen survivors detail their initiation into Opus Dei as young girls and how they were manipulated to pledge their lives to the organization. After joining Opus Dei, former members recall being ...

Reading the pages of Gareth Gore’s Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy Inside the Catholic Church in the days leading up to Halloween last fall was a scary ...

Opus Dei, the nearly century-old Rome-based personal prelature, has released a lengthy response to the October 2024 book Opus, accusing the book of giving “a false picture of Opus Dei based on ...

Almost since Opus Dei was founded in 1928 in pre-Franco Spain, the conservative Catholic group has been described as a "shadowy," "secretive," "cult-like" "sect." Every few years that image ...

The Catholic organization Opus Dei was born amid conspiracy theories. Its founder, Josemaría Escrivá, had struggled to win converts to his group — envisioned as a lay entity within the ...

Founded in 1928 by the Spanish priest Jose María Escribá Albás, Opus Dei has been a controversial source of power in the church for decades. Under Pope John Paul II, Escrivá was canonized ...

“Opus Dei,” Gore says, “creates the environment and connects ... On Saturday, further mortification came in the form of the discipline: a cordlike whip that members struck over their shoulders against ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentine prosecutors have concluded that there are grounds for launching a criminal investigation into the highest authorities of Opus Dei in South America between ...

It was run by Neil and Ann Corkery, a couple who had been members of Opus Dei since at least the eighties. Neil had been a critical figure in getting a new residence for male, celibate members of ...

A former numerary told the Mail on Sunday in 2005 about the whip and the cilice (a spiked garter members strap on their thighs) at an Opus Dei house. “As a member of Opus Dei, I was expected to ...