Catholic World Report's account of Monsignor Mariano Fazio, Opus Dei's auxiliary vicar, being formally named a defendant on 6 July 2025 in an Argentine criminal investigation alongside four priests, over allegations that Opus Dei authorities recruited at least 43 women, many as minors, into conditions of servitude between the early 1970s and 2015. States the jurisdiction (Argentina's human trafficking prosecutor's office) and carries Opus Dei's own categorical denial.
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A dedicated Catholic news outlet with named reporting and editorial standards, describing court and prosecutorial filings from the outside rather than an official record itself. NotesTier 2: a dedicated Catholic news outlet reporting from Argentine prosecutorial filings and cross-corroborated here against Wikipedia's independently sourced Controversies about Opus Dei article. The matter it reports is UNADJUDICATED (investigation stage, no trial, no conviction), which this record states plainly rather than treats as settled.
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PublisherCatholic World Report
Publication Year2025
URLhttps://www.catholicworldreport.com/2025/07/06/auxiliary-vicar-of-opus-dei-charged-with-human-trafficking-and-labor-exploitation/
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Source Auxiliary Vicar Of Opus Dei Charged With Human Trafficking And Labor Exploitation (Catholic World Report)
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