Opus Dei is currently present in almost 70 countries and is made up of more than 93,000 lay members, of whom 57% are women and 43% men, in addition to 2,095 priests. A Service of EWTN News, Inc.

To put it bluntly, Opus Dei has a big problem. In the nearly 100 years since its founding, countless stories have emerged about leaders, priests, and lay members in the Catholic Church’s sole ...

Opus Dei's image problems did not begin with Brown's novel and likely will not end with the Howard-Hanks film. Ever since it was established in 1928, the organization has been controversial within ...

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 14, 2025 / 15:00 pm. Opus Dei, the nearly century-old Rome-based personal prelature, has released a lengthy response to the October 2024 book “Opus,” accusing ...

The global Catholic community Opus Dei in 2005 paid $977,000 to settle a sexual misconduct suit against the Rev. C. John McCloskey, a priest well-known for preparing for conversion big-name ...

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.

Escrivá established Opus Dei (Latin for "Work of God") in 1928 as a primarily lay organization within the Roman Catholic Church. Of its more than 90,000 followers, only about 2,000 are priests.

Opus Dei had planned to revise its statutes to conform them to Pope Francis’ motu proprio Ad Charisma Tuendum. Essentially, the pontiff’s directive subjected Opus Dei to the leadership of the ...

Opus Dei provided them with housing, food, and recreational outings. Technically a personal prelature, Opus Dei was founded by Escriva in 1928. It has some 90,000 members in 70 countries.

Lima Newsroom, Aug 24, 2024 / 08:30 am. During his recent trip through Latin America, the prelate of Opus Dei, Monsignor Fernando Ocáriz, gave an interview to the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio in ...

Through it all, Opus Dei sought the protection of powerful men. Not long after Franco’s death in 1975 (the same year Escrivá died), it was a new pope, John Paul II, who provided the ...