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Revealed: How Opus Dei has flourished in the era of Trump

Revealed: How Opus Dei has flourished in the era of Trump

A new book details the close links between the secretive Catholic organisation and the Trump ally once referred to as the world’s third-most-powerful man.

Gareth Gore

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If Donald Trump is elected president in a month’s time, Opus Dei is brilliantly positioned to benefit.

In a speech just over a year ago, Kevin Roberts – president of the influential Heritage Foundation, close friend of vice president nominee J.D. Vance, and the architect of Project 2025 – hailed the controversial religious group’s founder Josemaría Escrivá as an inspirational figure.

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