Today the Catholic Church honors St. Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer y Albás (1902–1975), Spanish priest, founder of Opus Dei, and author of “The Way” (1934), a book that continues to be of ...

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 ...

In his remarkable book Torture and Eucharist, William Cavanaugh describes ... that followed the Spanish Civil War, St. Josemaria Escriva warned the faithful to "[n]ever put up a cross just to ...

which will prolong in the silence of our hearts that other thanksgiving which is the Eucharist.” One catalyst for St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross’ conversion was seeing a woman praying in ch ...

"We follow the spirit with which St. Josemaría (Escriva) and his successors accepted any provision of the pope related to Opus Dei. Since the work belongs to both God and the church, the Holy ...

Early in Roland Joffé’s There Be Dragons is an episode in which two young boys named Josemaría Escrivá and Manolo Torres sample cacao beans at a chocolate factory owned by Josemaría’s ...

Prayer and the Eucharist bring us to a single thing: to test our spirituality in the action of our daily lives." ...