Opus Dei was founded Oct. 2, 1928, by Father Josemaría Escrivá to help lay Catholics understand the baptismal calling of holiness and evangelization. Thursday, June 26, 2025.

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.

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 Church. Saturday, June 21, 2025.

Opus Dei has also had prominent representatives among governments and companies, although they usually do not publicly recognise their membership. The Spanish sociologist Alberto Moncada - himself a ...

Pope Francis changed canon law on Tuesday regarding the governance of Opus Dei and any future personal prelatures. In a motu proprio issued Aug. 8, the pope assimilated the personal prelature to ...

“Maybe this figure has to move on and then Opus Dei also will have to move on. We will see what happens in the future,” he said. Valero was speaking in a Sept. 9 video posted to X, the social ...

In identifying Opus Dei’s part in the Christian Nationalist movement, Gore has done a public service. It’s not true to say ...

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, which ...

Total Effort. Opus Dei (official title: Sociedad Sacerdotal de la Santa Cruz y del Opus Dei) was founded in Madrid on Oct. 2, 1928. The founder was a young Marist priest, José María Escrivá de ...

I read with interest Antonia Cundy’s report “Opus Dei group accused of recruiting children” (August 5). The accounts given by former members of the conservative Catholic group exactly match ...

Opus Dei’s own documents say that its mission in the United States is to “re-Christianize America” — by which they do not mean accommodating Christians of all stripes.