This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Gareth Gore [Bluesky/Substack]. Gareth is the author of Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church, about which we spoke to him in February last year. Between now and then, Gareth had an opportunity to have an audience with Pope Leo XIV. See : He spent years investigating Opus Dei, a Catholic group accused of a vast conspiracy of abuse. Then Pope Leo asked to meet, Sam Wolfson, The Guardian, April 6, 2026. We spoke to Gareth about his meeting, the current situation of Opus Dei, and the influence of the institution on US (and world) politics.
See/hear also : Opus Dei’s opaque influence on US campus politics, Antonia Cundy and Josh Gabert-Doyon, The Financial Times, May 10, 2026 /// Women who say they were tricked into servitude for Opus Dei to meet in Argentina, Harriet Barber, The Guardian, December 15, 2025 /// Hundreds attend Mass for Opus Dei founder in cathedral, Michael Cook, The Catholic Weekly, June 25, 2025 | Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy., President DONALD J. TRUMP, Truth Social, April 12, 2026 /// Pope says ‘tyrants’ speech was not aimed at Trump, BBC, Maia Davis, April 19, 2026 /// On Politics: The Pope and the President, James Butler, Massimo Faggioli and Jack Hanson, London Review of Books, April 23, 2026.
4.30pm, May 14, 2026 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio Plus, podcats.
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