People wonder if Pope Leo will reform the group, which has been accused of abuse, financial wrongdoing and human trafficking.

A Four Corners investigation airing on Monday night is set to share disturbing allegations made by dozens of students from private schools in Sydney affiliated with the religious group Opus Dei.

Opus Dei presented its proposed statutes to the Holy See on June 11 following the guidelines from the Vatican in the motu ...

Monsignor Fernando Ocáriz, the prelate of Opus Dei, said the institution he has led since January 2017 “does not want to be an exception” in the Catholic Church. The prelate gave his comments ...

The successful novel The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown has raised public interest in the controversial Catholic lay group Opus Dei, depicting it as a sect focused on wealth and power. As part of the ...

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.

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 ...

Msgr. Ocáriz recalled that St. Josemaría said that 'the ways of doing and saying things change, but the essence, the spirit, remains.' "The main contribution of Opus Dei is to accompany the ...

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 ...

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 ...