“As a member of Opus Dei, I was expected to undertake a weekly discipline of private self-flagellation 40 strokes with a waxed, corded whip” former member John Roche wrote. “We were ...

Pope Francis has since diminished its standing, but Gore chronicles Opus Dei’s founding and rise, recounting Escrivá’s ...

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 ...