As reported in Christopher Hale (a political operative and writer who ran Catholic outreach for President Obama's 2012 campaign), Pope Leo XIV is weeks away from approving statutes that would vaporize Opus Dei as a unified organization. The group that gave us both Da Vinci Code villains and connections to Spain's Fascist dictator Franco is about to become three separate entities.

When Pope Francis died in April, Opus Dei immediately postponed the reform congress he'd ordered — claiming they needed time to mourn. By "mourn," they apparently meant "hope the new pope forgets about those Argentine prosecutors investigating us for coerced servitude and labor abuses."

Msgr. Fernando Ocáriz scaled the meeting back to "minimum necessary business," church-speak for "let's stall and pray for a mir

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