ROME -- Opus Dei, the ultraconservative Catholic group demonized in last year's hit film "The Da Vinci Code," is thankful to the U.S.-made blockbuster for helping to make organization better known.

With 40 million copies of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code sold and the movie version ... Critics say the book portrays the religious organization Opus Dei in a sinister light, while fans contend ...

People wonder if Pope Leo will reform the group, which has been accused of abuse, financial wrongdoing and human trafficking.

NEW YORK — Opus Dei is one of the villains in The Da Vinci Code. And although the Dan Brown blockbuster is fiction, it’s likely that many people will come away from the film version next month ...

Now there’s a small bronze sign with the group’s name, and next to it a box of pamphlets “for ‘Da Vinci Code’ fans – here is the real Opus Dei,” to appease the curious who’ve ...

Catholic group Opus Dei have urged Da Vinci Code director Ron Howard to include a disclaimer to say that the movie is a work of fiction. The film, based on Dan Brown's book of the same title ...

Two members of the mysterious Catholic cult featured in film The Da Vinci Code, will go on trial ... a-week for no wages by leaders of the Opus Dei society made famous in Dan Brown's best-selling ...

A bookstore window brimming with copies of "The Da Vinci Code" caught their eye. The novel, which depicts Opus Dei as a sinister cabal fond of murder and masochism, had only just been released.

When The Da Vinci Code became a publishing sensation, leaders of the Roman Catholic organisation Opus Dei realised they had an image problem on their hands. The assassin in the best-selling ...

Papal interviewer Vittorio Messori says the slurs leveled against Opus Dei in Brown’s lurid and historically inaccurate novel The Da Vinci Code actually have sparked a growth surge by the ...

The conservative religious group Opus Dei has asked for a disclaimer on the upcoming film based on the best-selling novel “The Da Vinci Code.” / Source: The Associated Press The conservative ...

Opus Dei, the Catholic organization portrayed in “The Da Vinci Code,” is on the offensive to discredit the feature film as it hits theaters next week — the Catholic Church is asking its ...