Opus Dei Ignores Complaint of 43 Women Held in Slavery
Some of the women enslaved by Opus Dei. | Photo: Twitter/ @meneame_net
teleSUR | October 10, 2021
Between 1974 and 2015, the Opus Dei held 43 women working without pay and in conditions similar to slavery in Argentina, Paraguay, and Bolivia.
This Catholic lay and clerical organization recruited the women as teenagers by promising to provide them with an education. Subsequently, however, they worked without pay as janitors, chefs, and maids in the service of the Opus Dei members and their guests.
In a letter sent to Pope Francis earlier this year, the exploited women emphasized they were deceived because they did not expect to become servants of the elite “in the name of God.” They also requested that the Catholic authorities apologize, compensate them for the damages, and stop these types of labor practices.
Among those involved in this violation of labor rights are ex-Regional Vicar Victor Urrestarazu, the Opus Dai highest authority Monsignor Fernando Ocariz, and Auxiliary Vicar of Rome Mariano Fazio Fernandez.
The women’s complaint was submitted to the Abuse Section of the Congregation for the Faith Doctrine of the Vatican Tribunal. On Sept. 29, Ocariz signed a decree to carry out a change in the Opus Dei’s South American structures.
In order to “improve the promotion and coordination of apostolic work,” he created the La Plata Region Vicar, which comprises Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Argentina.
This and other purely administrative changes, however, have not solved the underlying problem. So far, the Opus Dei has not done justice to 43 Latin American women it affected.
4 Comments »
Leave a Reply
Featured Video
CARBON EMISSIONS SCORES & THE CONTROL OF EVERYTHING
For more videos go to the Aletho News – Video Category
or go to
Aletho News Archives – Video-Images
From the Archives
Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise?
By Richard Smith | BMJ | July 5, 2021
Health research is based on trust. Health professionals and journal editors reading the results of a clinical trial assume that the trial happened and that the results were honestly reported. But about 20% of the time, said Ben Mol, professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at Monash Health, they would be wrong. As I’ve been concerned about research fraud for 40 years, I wasn’t that surprised as many would be by this figure, but it led me to think that the time may have come to stop assuming that research actually happened and is honestly reported, and assume that the research is fraudulent until there is some evidence to support it having happened and been honestly reported. The Cochrane Collaboration, which purveys “trusted information,” has now taken a step in that direction. … continue
Blog Roll
Recent Comments
Richard Jones on White House “Climate Adv… SANITYCLAUS on NATO ready to intervene in Kos… Sparrow on Israeli Forces Storm, Seal Off… brianharryaustralia on CDC’s Ludicrous Makeover brianharryaustralia on Israeli Forces Storm, Seal Off… brianharryaustralia on Energy crisis forces EU alumin… brianharryaustralia on Europe decreasing support to… brianharryaustralia on EU gas prices are seven times… brianharryaustralia on German Official Trashes Cost o… brianharryaustralia on German Official Trashes Cost o… brianharryaustralia on The Latest Spy Story: Was It I… brianharryaustralia on The Latest Spy Story: Was It I…
Aletho News- Justice For Liberty August 19, 2022
- Climate change is not making children obese August 19, 2022
- White House “Climate Adviser” Banned from the National Academy of Science for Science Fraud August 18, 2022
- The CDC Failed, So Spin It Off and Make It More Powerful? August 18, 2022
- CDC’s Ludicrous Makeover August 18, 2022
- (Yet) more worrying data on myocarditis in children August 18, 2022
- Israeli Forces Storm, Seal Offices of Seven Palestinian Human Rights and Humanitarian Organizations in Ramallah August 18, 2022
- ‘Call to Boost Arm Supplies to Kiev by Former US Officials Violates UN Charter, US Laws’ August 18, 2022
- German Official Trashes Cost of Living Protesters as “Enemies of the State” August 18, 2022
- UNSC Sanctions on Hiring of Workers From North Korea Do Not Apply to Donbas August 18, 2022
- No longer a pariah? Russia and China could be about to ‘normalise’ North Korea August 18, 2022
- Europe decreasing support to Ukraine August 18, 2022
- EU gas prices are seven times higher than in US August 18, 2022
- Energy crisis forces EU aluminum plant to shut down August 18, 2022
- National suicide is looming, but don’t dare ask any tough questions August 18, 2022
- CARBON EMISSIONS SCORES & THE CONTROL OF EVERYTHING August 18, 2022
- Monkeypox Vaccine Insanity — Too Many Risks and Now, Liability-Free August 18, 2022
- What to Know Before Deciding to Take The Novavax Injection August 18, 2022
- OffGuardian
- Cricket Croquettes August 19, 2022
- WATCH: Delete Your Social Media – #SolutionsWatch August 18, 2022
- Nationalising the power supply plays right into the Great Reset’s hands August 18, 2022
- Richie Allen
- A Word On The Future Of The Radio Show August 4, 2022
- Boris Johnson Is Gone But What Does It Mean? July 7, 2022
- Macy Gray: “Changing Your Parts Doesn’t Make You A Woman!” July 5, 2022
- Climate Change Qualification Open To Pupils In Northern Ireland July 5, 2022
- Consent Factory
- The “Unvaccinated” Question (Revisited) August 6, 2022
- If Americans Knew
- Flashback: Israel offered to sell South Africa nuclear warheads August 17, 2022
- Ad by If Americans Knew broadcast twice on Tucker Carlson August 17, 2022
- Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian Near Jerusalem August 17, 2022
- Not A Lot Of People Know That
- Shock news! The Telegraph publishes Jordan Peterson’s rallying cry on globalist doomsters – TCW August 18, 2022
- Mangrove forests: How 40 million Australian trees died of thirst-BBC August 16, 2022
- John Kerry’s climate office rife with ties to far-left green groups August 16, 2022
- How China Dominates The EV Battery Market August 15, 2022
- No Tricks Zone
- Sebastian Rushworth M.D.
- Do high protein diets shorten lifespan? July 31, 2022
Aletho News 
The Catholic Church is a Parasitic organisation. It pays no TAX anywhere on Earth, and expects people to contribute labour for free.
When was the last time you saw the Catholic Church, feeding the homeless and poor?
LikeLiked by 1 person
there is a saying in Spanish: comunism NO! opus dei 3 times NO NO NO !
LikeLiked by 2 people
The Catholic Church, Opus Dei, “What have they ever done for us”?(Apologies to Monty Python)…….
LikeLiked by 1 person
Although the numbers are not large (43 women over 40 years), this sounds outrageous. This practice must end, and the Pope — an Argentinian, as it happens — must weigh in to put paid to it with no possibility of recurrence in South America or anywhere else. The venality and greed and evilness of humanity — usually of the male variety, it seems for sure — never cease.
May God bless and comfort these women, since Catholic Church officials have not so far done so….
(No indication here of sexual-service exploitation. If the women were spared that indignity, I feel a bit relieved for them. Were they unable to reach out to their families? Are they now, 2021, “free” and unfettered? May they be given abject apologies and compensated massively by the CC….)
Thanks to Telesur and AN for bringing this to light and publicity….
LikeLiked by 1 person