Opus Dei is a conservative Catholic organization founded in 1928 in Spain by Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer Escriva to teach Catholics to strive for holiness through work. It has 85,000 members worldwide, of which 2,000 are priests. Escriva was made a saint in 2002.
Opus Dei has different levels of membership, numeraries who live at an Opus Dei residence and choose a celibate life, and super-numeraries, who are often married and have regular jobs.
Estranged members have complained of coercive recruitment tactics and corporal mortification, notably the use of the cilice, a spiked metal belt strapped tight around the thigh.
The Catholic organization is portrayed in Dan Brown's bestseller as a secretive cult willing to murder to defend a 2,000-year old Catholic cover-up. The face of Opus Dei in the book is Silas, an albino monk with a masochistic streak.
On Wednesday, it held a function in New York to to celebrate the publication of a new edition of Opus Dei founder Jose Maria Escriva's book of reflections, "The Way," timed to coincide with the film's release this month, which was deemed "strikes back before Da Vinci Code" movie ".
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