US EditionPope Highlights Plight of Vulnerable Adults in Abuse and Meets with Top Opus Dei Critic
- On March 16, Pope Leo met at the Vatican with British investigative journalist Gareth Gore, and the Vatican placed the private audience on the pope's formal agenda and released photos.
- Gareth Gore's 2024 book alleges emotional control and financial fraud within Opus Dei, a Catholic prelature with about 85,000 members across 70 countries, which Opus sharply rejected as "littered with twisted facts" and clarified extensively.
- In a private briefing, Gore urged Pope Leo to launch an independent investigation into Opus Dei, providing documentation and the audience was facilitated by Pedro Salinas.
- Opus Dei declined to comment Monday, referencing its Feb.16 audience with Leo and prior critiques, amid Argentine prosecutors' 2024 criminal probe into 44 women.
- Having met Opus leaders before, Leo signaled early interest by meeting Monsignor Fernando Ocáriz Braña on May 14 and Monsignor Mariano Fazio last month; his Peru past highlights his abuse awareness.
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Pope Leo XIV met the reporter Gareth Gore for a private audience, and that's what makes us listen. The journalist has examined Opus Dei, and this has played a major role in the Vatican in recent years.
The English journalist and writer met for 40 minutes with Leon XIV, at the request of the pontiff, who congratulated him for “a rigorous work” of his book on the Work. Gore asked the Pope for the “decanonization” of Escrivá and a thorough investigation of the abuses within the prelature Gareth Gore, journalist: “For Opus Dei the most important thing is the proximity to power and money, faith is secondary” A “strict work”.
Pope Leo XIV has had an unusual gesture this Monday, which is a warning to the most conservative section of the Church and a significant sign of a style that begins to be made known: he has met more than 40 minutes with journalist Gareth Gore, author of Opus (Critic), a research book that launches serious accusations against Opus Dei, published in 2024.
Pope Meets Author Urging Probe of Catholic Group Opus Dei
Pope Leo met on Monday with an investigative journalist who alleges that a prominent Catholic organization with ties to right-wing politicians in the U.S. and other countries covered up sexual and financial crimes, which the group firmly denies.
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