There are priests in Opus Dei, but they're only 2 percent of the total membership. Seventy percent are lay Catholics, called supernumeraries, who live at home with their spouses and children.

I read with interest Antonia Cundy’s report “Opus Dei group accused of recruiting children” ().The accounts given by former members of the conservative Catholic group exactly match my own ...

About 650 members of Opus Dei are believed to live in Australia. Most of the group's lay people are supernumeraries or numeraries. Supernumeraries make up the majority of the group's membership ...

Officially, Opus Dei has 3,000 members in the U.S., and Gore was told 800 of them are in Washington. ... But, unfortunately, in the past, these types of things have tended to end this way.

In 'Opus," Gareth Gore examines many seminal moments in the history of the controversial Catholic group Opus Dei, arguing that its secretive ways have allowed it to cover up serious scandals.

Opus Dei is currently present in almost 70 countries and is made up of more than 93,000 lay members, of whom 57% are women and 43% men, in addition to 2,095 priests. A Service of EWTN News, Inc.

The prelate of Opus Dei said members "accept with sincere filial obedience" the slight modifications Pope Francis made to the section of the Code of Canon Law dealing with personal prelatures.