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

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

In fact, Opus Dei means "Work of God" in Latin. He was beatified in 1992 and canonised in 2002 by Pope John Paul II, who deemed him the "saint of ordinary life".

Opus Dei, the nearly century-old Rome-based personal prelature, has released a lengthy response to the October 2024 book Opus, accusing the book of giving “a false picture of Opus Dei based on ...

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.

In its request, prosecutors asked the court to call several Opus Dei members to be questioned, including Fathers Carlos Nannei, who served as vicar general from 1991-2000; Patricio Olmos, who ...

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 ...

Through it all, Opus Dei sought the protection of powerful men. Not long after Franco’s death in 1975 (the same year Escrivá ...

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.

In 1998, a prematurely silver-haired, baby-faced priest named C. John McCloskey was dispatched by Opus Dei, the secretive right-wing Roman Catholic group, to Washington, D.C., to minister to some ...

Opus Dei was founded Oct. 2, 1928, by Father Josemaría Escrivá to help lay Catholics understand the baptismal calling of holiness and evangelization. Sunday, June 22, 2025.

In 1998, a prematurely silver-haired, baby-faced priest named C. John McCloskey was dispatched by Opus Dei, the secretive right-wing Roman Catholic group, to Washington, D.C., to minister to some ...