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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 ...
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 Catholic Church. The prelate gave his comments ...
NCR readers respond to stories about the on-going reform of Opus Dei, Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' and the early signs of ...
The Catholic organization Opus Dei was born amid conspiracy theories. Its founder, Josemaría Escrivá, had struggled to win ...
A few days before Christmas, several posts began to appear on an online community started by people who had once been members of Opus Dei. Most of the posts came from former numeraries ...
Crisis coronat Opus, they said, and the Opus they meant was Opus Dei—a little-known organization of Roman Catholic priests and laymen which, it was rumored, had nine or ten members in Franco’s ...
Founded in 1928 by the Spanish priest Jose María Escribá Albás, Opus Dei has been a controversial source of power in the church for decades. Under Pope John Paul II, Escrivá was canonized ...
In 2003 a diligent member of Opus Dei’s PR team spotted an item in Publisher’s Weekly about a forthcoming novel entitled The Da Vinci Code. After tracking down an advance copy, he discovered ...