Twenty days into his papacy, Pope Leo XIV’s appointment style remains largely unknown—but his years leading the Diocese of ...

Vicar of Opus Dei for the U.S. and Canada Every generation in the history of Christianity is marked by a voice that stirs the waters. Sometimes it comforts. Sometimes it challenges. Often ...

Founded in Spain in 1928 by priest Josemaría Escrivá, Opus Dei is one of the most secretive and powerful arms of the Catholic Church. Officially known as the Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus ...

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Cipriani, who led the Peruvian church for two decades before his retirement in 2019, was the first cardinal of Opus Dei, the conservative movement that was founded by the Spanish priest Josemaría ...

Gareth Gore, a financial reporter who did not set out to write a book on Opus Dei, examines Brown’s work along with many other seminal moments in the history of this controversial Catholic group.

Opus Dei was founded Oct. 2, 1928, by Father Josemaría Escrivá to help lay Catholics understand the baptismal calling of holiness and evangelization.

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 ...

Opus Dei was founded in Spain in 1928 by Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, a priest who wanted to encourage Catholics to pursue religion in their everyday lives, particularly at work. The group ...

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 ...

Few religious institutions excite the public imagination quite as much as Opus Dei, the deeply secretive, conservative Catholic organisation founded in Spain almost a century ago. Where some ...