Opus Dei, which means “God’s Work,” claims 84,000 members worldwide, including 1,800 priests. It also has hundreds of thousands of “cooperators” who take part in some activities but have ...

The group, which has been under investigation by the Vatican, "categorically denies" any accusations of human trafficking or ...

The Argentine justice system has added the auxiliary vicar of Opus Dei as a defendant in a case involving the alleged human ...

Opus Dei is a Latin phrase that translates literally as "the work of God." It's also the name of a Catholic organization that was founded in Spain almost 80 years ago and now claims some 84,000 ...

In the novel, an albino Opus Dei monk, Silas, commits murder in the name of religion and "purifies" himself through self-flagellation and "corporal mortification." In fact, ...

Many religions practice self-flagellation rituals. Even today. Catholics in Latin America, the Iberian Peninsula, the Philippines, and ultramontane Roman Catholics of the Opus Dei conviction ...

Some masochistic behaviors including self-flagellation have religious (rather than sexual) motivations. But what are the psychological reasons that motivate such behavior?

Recent reports highlight GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum's connections with the Catholic group Opus Dei. Critics say the group has an extreme agenda, others say it simply has a strong mission.

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 ...

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 ...

When a woman who says she was groped by the priest she turned to for counseling reached a $977,000 settlement with the Catholic community Opus Dei in 2005, she was promised that the priest she ...