Opus Dei is a personal prelature within the Catholic Church that has been the subject of numerous controversies. Throughout its history, Opus Dei has been criticized by many, including by numerary members who knew the founder and had roles in Opus Dei's internal government.

2023年1月30日 · Its special status has invited controversy, with some Catholic scholars likening it to a "church within a church" and criticising the amount of influence it wields. Who founded Opus Dei, and when? Opus Dei was founded in 1928 by Josemaría Escrivá, a Spanish Roman Catholic priest who said he had received a vision of its creation from God.

2024年12月28日 · To put it bluntly, Opus Dei has a big problem. In the nearly 100 years since its founding, countless stories have emerged about leaders, priests, and lay members in the Catholic Church’s sole “personal prelature”—a kind of floating diocese defined not by geography but by a set of practices and devotions—embroiled in scandal.

2025年1月14日 · Opus Dei is at its core an alleged abusive cult that preys on vulnerable individuals and even children to fill its numerary ranks — the celibate men and women charged with doing all the work ...

1995年3月1日 · On May 17, 1992, Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, the founder of Opus Dei, was beatified by the Pope in a ceremony in Rome that drew a crowd of over 200,000, perhaps the largest crowd in the Vatican…

2024年10月28日 · Gore’s book Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy Inside the Catholic Church, which was published in the U.S. on Oct. 1, contains a shocking number of...

2023年8月15日 · Is there some problem with Opus Dei that led Pope Francis to take so many steps to contradict what its founder thought a key to its continued usefulness to the Church? Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... I have many questions about the pope’s latest canonical offensive against Opus Dei.