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Opus Dei’s Number Two Accused of Trafficking Poor Women for Labor Exploitation in Argentina
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Reduction to servitude and trafficking in persons are the crimes for which the highest authorities of Opus Dei in Argentina are accused. The accused since last year are four priests and now another one is added: Mariano Fazio, who today is vicar auxiliary of the Prelature of the Holy Cross, that is, the second in overall command of the conservative Catholic organization. In the judicial case it is clear that at least 43 women were captured by Op…
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elDiarioARThe current assistant vicar of the Prelature and first in order of succession of his leader Fernando Ocáriz, the priest Mariano Fazio, has been formally charged by three Argentine prosecutors in the case for trafficking poor women for servitude
Vig river auxiliary from Opus Dei, Mariano Fazio, accused of argentinist justice
The Opus Dei has responded, by means of a communiqué, to the publication of Eldirio.es in which the charge of trafficking against the number two of the
Opus Dei’s number two accused of trafficking poor women for labor exploitation in Argentina
Prosecutors are asking to charge Mariano Fazio along with the four clerics already accused by 43 women. The number two of Opus Dei, the auxiliary vicar Mariano Fazio, was formally accused of trafficking women for himlabor exploitation within their religious order in conditions of semi-slavery, a practice that the Opus would have committed for four decades in Argentina. This is stated in the eight-page document to which he has accessed ElDiario.es
The Argentine Anti-Human Trafficking Attorney's Office (PROTEX) and an Argentine court have concluded that Father Mariano Fazio, the first in line to become the leader of Opus Dei, was part of a network that exploited at least 43 women over four decades. Three priests who served as Opus Dei's vicars in Buenos Aires from the 1990s to 2022 have also been accused of being members of the network.
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