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Opus Dei, Latin for the “work of God,” is a lay group in the Catholic Church founded in 1928. About 15 Harvard students are closely affiliated with the group, which they call “the Work.”
This is part of the faith of Opus Dei, a Catholic lay group founded in 1928 by Josemaría Escriva, now a canonized saint. Escriva’s purpose was to promote what Opus Dei terms a “universal call to holiness” that would allow...
This is the charge of ODAN, the Opus Dei Awareness Network. According to Executive Director Dianne R. DiNicola, who founded ODAN in 1991, the goal of the group is to provide information, outreach and support to people around the world who claim to have been hurt by Opus Dei.
DiNicola founded the group after her daughter, Tammy, who had become a numerary member while a student at Boston College in February of 1988, left the Work. As Tammy drew closer into the group, her mother says, she pulled further and further away from her family, even saying at one...
Saddam strove to overcome those disgraces by using Iraq's vast oil wealth to build the Arabs a formidable military machine. His rule was the product of a nationalist ideology that sought to liberate the Arab world by brutally controlling its people: Iraq's ruling Ba'ath party was founded...