Marketing/Growth thread by @gareth_gore

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Pope Leo asked me to meet him in a private audience at the Vatican today

I presented him with documents and evidence detailing decades of abuse inside Opus Dei and urged him to launch a full independent investigation into the group

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He invited me after learning of the allegations made in my book OPUS, which he described as “a rigorous piece of work”

We spent more than forty minutes talking – just the two of us – and he asked a series of informed questions

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The book is the result of years of research, hundreds of hours talking with members – and access to secret internal documents

I detail evidence of child grooming, enslavement, human trafficking, breaching the seal of confession - and much much more

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I urged Pope Leo to launch a formal independent inquiry into the alleged abuses, staffed by lay and clerical experts

I also asked that he reopen the canonisation of the group’s controversial founder Josemaría Escrivá, who was made into a saint in 2002

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Opus Dei has done everything it can to silence these serious allegations

It sought to threaten and intimidate us into halting the book’s publication, it has tried to discredit me as a journalist, it has accused me of lies – and of being a conspiracist

english.elpais.com/international/…

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But Opus Dei’s dirty tricks campaign has completely failed

Pope Leo’s decision to invite me to the Vatican is proof that the Catholic Church is taking these allegations very seriously – right at the very top

press.vatican.va/content/salast…

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For too long, Opus Dei has been able to operate with relative impunity wherever it wanted to

Those days are now over

It’s time to let the light in. It’s time for the world to learn the truth about this abusive organisation

ewtnnews.com/vatican/pope-l…

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By inviting me here, Pope Leo has sent a very strong message to the victims that he is listening, that the Church wants to hear their voices

But what really matters is action. How he responds to these abuses will a big part of the legacy he leaves behind

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You can read more about today’s meeting on my Substack

garethgore.substack.com/p/my-audience-…

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