A Journalist, the Pope, and the Shadows of Opus Dei

They spoke one-on-one for forty minutes, which was the length of the audience between Pope Leo and British journalist Gareth ...
Southeast Missourian

Founder of conservative Catholic group elevated to sainthood

VATICAN CITY -- Drawing one of the Vatican's largest-ever crowds, Pope John Paul II Sunday bestowed the honor of sainthood on the controversial founder of Opus Dei, a conservative Catholic ...
National Catholic Register

50 Years On: St. Josemaría Escrivá, Opus Dei, and the Universal Call to Holiness

June 26 is the 50th anniversary of the death and birth into eternal life of St. Josemaría Escrivá (1902-75), the founder of Opus Dei. Pope St. John Paul II called him “the saint of ordinary life,” but ...
The Washington Post

A history of Opus Dei — and the conspiracy theories around it

The Catholic organization Opus Dei was born amid conspiracy theories. Its founder, Josemaría Escrivá, had struggled to win converts to his group — envisioned as a lay entity within the Catholic Church ...