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 ...

Crisis coronat Opus, they said, and the Opus they meant was Opus Dei—a little-known organization of Roman Catholic priests and laymen which, it was rumored, had nine or ten members in Franco’s ...