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 ...

Over at Opus Dei’s Tilden Study Center in West Los Angeles, director Enriqueta Villarreal said the problem has been keeping up with a recent flood of inquiries from people interested in ...

Opus Dei in Argentina has responded to a BBC news story about a complaint made to the Vatican by 43 ... “There are older women with a lot of health problems because of so much work and who can ...

Opus Dei refuses to acknowledge that it has a problem — or even launch an investigation. At this time of year, Christians come together to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.

Opus Dei supporters claim their founder, St. Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer, was on to the need for updating Catholicism three decades before the reformist Vatican II Council of the 1960s.

When Pope Leo XIV summoned the leader of Opus Dei to see him, in one of his first official papal audiences, Vatican watchers immediately began to wonder what the meeting meant.

The idea for Opus Dei came to him, he claimed, as a divinely revealed mission, but evidently, as Gore notes, “the word of God was malleable”: In the beginning, he strictly forbade women from ...

LA Catholics Valentino Creus and Matthew Schoenecker both died June 18 after a diving incident at Rattlesnake Falls.

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".

It could be that's contributed to Opus Dei's image problem. An unremarkable-looking building on a Rome street, for instance, could easily inspire the imagination of a writer of fiction.