Opus Dei
Gaslit Nation
Gaslit Nation
4.8 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
How does Franco’s reign in Spain connect to the rise of Trump? In this gripping true-crime thriller, financial journalist Gareth Gore, while investigating a bank collapse in Spain, follows the money trail to uncover a vast international conspiracy behind Opus Dei.
What is Opus Dei? It's a shadowy global right-wing organization founded in Spain just before the Spanish Civil War. Supported by powerful Republican figures like Leonard Leo, Opus Dei is a Christian nationalist movement fueling efforts to dismantle democracy and pave the way for dictatorship in America. Gore, the author of the explosive book Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy Inside the Catholic Church, delves into this insidious network. In this chilling conversation, recorded just before the U.S. election, Gore reveals how Opus Dei’s influence stretches from Capitol Hill to the Supreme Court—and what is being done, including by the Pope, to try to curb its destructive power.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Gaslight Nation. I am your host, Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker, |
| 0:16.0 | and the writer and producer of the journalistic thriller, Mr. Jones, about Stalin's genocide, famine, and |
| 0:22.1 | Ukraine. The film The Kremlin doesn't want you to see, so be sure to watch it. |
| 0:26.4 | America's fascist roots go deep and have links to Franco's dictatorship in Spain. In a conversation |
| 0:32.3 | recorded shortly before the election, this week's guest is journalist Gareth Gore, |
| 0:37.0 | author of the chilling must-read |
| 0:39.1 | book Opus, The Colt of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic |
| 0:46.7 | Church, unraveling how this misogynistic cult, Opus Day, is destroying American democracy from within. |
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| 1:57.1 | What inspired you to write opus? And how did you first become aware of the connections between dark money, human trafficking and the Catholic Church? |
| 2:08.4 | So I never set out to write a book about Elpers Day. I completely fell into this by accident. So I'm a financial reporter by background. And basically |
| 2:19.3 | what happened was a bank in Spain collapsed and I was sent to report on it. And so many strands |
| 2:25.2 | of the story seemed to make no sense. And so I just decided to dig and to dig more. And as |
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