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.
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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?
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there is a saying in Spanish: comunism NO! opus dei 3 times NO NO NO !
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The Catholic Church, Opus Dei, “What have they ever done for us”?(Apologies to Monty Python)…….
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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….
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