COMMENTARY: Pope St. John Paul II called him ‘the saint of ordinary life,’ but we could also name him the apostle of the ...

Opus Dei has often been depicted as a sinister cult, most notoriously in Dan Brown’s thriller The Da Vinci Code, which accuses its murderous leaders of suppressing Jesus Christ’s marriage to ...

He’s an Australian actor who achieved his Hollywood dream. But it would take years for Tim Pocock to overcome the shame of growing up gay in Opus Dei.

On the 29th November 2005 Lateline from the ABC has conducted a special report into Opus Dei translated to God’s work which has been under intense negative spotlight since the release of Dan Brown’s ...

Opus Dei, an ultra religious Catholic institution, is being accused of using false promises of a better life to coerce 43 children into slavery and seclusion.

For its part, Opus Dei presents itself as a predominantly lay organisation, with some clergy, which emphasises the pursuit of personal holiness in lived, day-to-day life. Nothing to see there, then.

Manipulation, greed and power: The untold story of Opus Dei After a five-year-long investigation into the Work of God, financial journalist Gareth Gore accuses the organization of holding Spain’s ...

Opus Dei and corporal mortification The Da Vinci Code makes it appear that Opus Dei members practice bloody mortifications (e.g., pp. 12, 14, 29, 31, 73, 89, 127-28, 195, 276-79, 293). In fact, though ...

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 ...

The accusations are serious: within Opus Dei there is allegedly a pressing recruitment of adolescent boys, some of whom are encouraged to practice 'painful' acts of 'physical mortification' and to ...

Opus Dei said use of the cilice and discipline by minors “used to happen in the past”, but it was “surprised” by claims that the practice was ongoing.