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 ...

Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer, the Spanish founder of the controversial Roman Catholic group Opus Dei, to be declared a saint by Pope John Paul II, sources said. The Vatican sources said the ...

Today the Catholic Church honors St. Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer y Albás (1902–1975), Spanish priest, founder of Opus Dei, and author of “The Way” (1934), a book that continues to be of ...

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 ...

Founded by St. Josemaría Escrivá on Oct. 2, 1928, and erected as a personal prelature on Nov. 28, 1982, by St. John Paul II, since March 2022 Opus Dei has been at the center of a series of ...

ROME — In one of the most hotly debated acts of his papacy, Pope John Paul II beatified the Spanish founder of the conservative Opus Dei religious movement yesterday, elevating Monsignor Jose ...

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 ...

Opus Dei, the nearly century-old Rome-based personal ... the Catholic organization — which was founded in 1928 by St. Josemaría Escrivá — said it provided Gore with “broad cooperation ...

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 ...