BUCKTOWN (CBS 2) The best-selling book, the da Vinci Code, has brought a somewhat secretive branch of the Catholic church into the spotlight. Now, Chicago members of Opus Dei are offering their own farewell to the pope. CBS 2's Joanie Lum reports.

A Vatican writer discusses the Roman Catholic Church's most controversial organization—and how it was misrepresented in 'The Da Vinci Code'

The new education secretary, Ruth Kelly, yesterday admitted that she received "spiritual support" from the controversial Roman Catholic Opus Dei movement, while insisting that her faith would not stand in the way of her taking up further government jobs.

My terrifying life in Ruth Kelly's religious sect

It sits on a hill, a villa of honey-coloured stone in a leafy suburb on the south side of Glasgow, and gives no hint of what goes on behind its sturdy walls.

Ruth Kelly yesterday faced calls to relinquish her membership of the controversial Catholic sect, Opus Dei, branded a cult by critics - or resign from the Cabinet.

There's nothing sinister about Opus Dei, says former member Christopher Howse

Ruth Kelly, the Education Secretary, has insisted her faith is a private matter that has nothing to do with her new job.

It started with a drunken run-in with an Opus Dei member. Before he knew it, Damian Thompson had learnt some unsavoury truths about the Catholic sect – and become one of its 'secret enemies'

It wields huge influence in the Vatican yet is condemned as a sinister and ruthless Catholic sect. Now the fundamentalist group is taking control of a British parish for the first time - and one of its members is in the Cabinet. Peter Stanford gains rare access to the closed world of Opus Dei

Opus Dei, the conservative Roman Catholic organisation that counts Ruth Kelly, the Education Secretary, among its members, has been given its first parish in Britain since it was founded in 1928.

Can you guess the name of the following Catholic organization?

In Dan Brown’s best-selling fiction thriller, “The DaVinci Code,” two of the book’s characters are members of Opus Dei, a Catholic lay organization.

Depending on the eye of the beholder, the teaching kitchens of Lexington College, bedecked with pots and pans, mark either a place where young people learn an employable skill in a Christian setting, or a clandestine battlefield in an intense struggle for the soul of the Roman Catholic Church.

The bestselling novel ‘The Da Vinci Code’ puts the Catholic sect in the spotlight’s harsh glare. Some who have left call the group manipulative and cult-like, but adherents cast it in a soft light