Opus Dei
Proper noun
Meaning
Opus Dei
(Christianity) The Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei, a Roman Catholic organization composed of a prelate, secular clergy and lay people, whose mission is to spread the Catholic teaching that everyone is called to become a saint; its lay members, men and women, engage in the affairs of the world and seek to direct them "according to God's will".
Examples
Opus Dei is an efficient machine run to achieve world power.
I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing.
About one-fourth regulate the work of God (the Opus Dei).
An Opus Dei spokesman says "the influence of Opus Dei in the Vatican has been exaggerated." citation Of the nearly 200 cardinals in the Catholic Church, only two are known to be members of Opus Dei.
Among today’s occupants are the Catholic order Opus Dei and a Buddhist church.
Laibach recorded two new interpretations of the song, which they titled Leben Heißt Leben, and Opus Dei.