Gareth Gore

@garethgore.bsky.social

Writing about the money behind Silicon Valley at IFR Author of OPUS, published by Simon & Schuster “Vividly told and excellently researched" - Financial Times

"...from the 1950s onwards, Banco Popular’s wealth went into creating a vast recruitment network targeting children and vulnerable teenagers, building palatial Opus Dei centres across the world, and eventually forming one of the most formidable clandestine political influences in the US."

Gareth Gore@garethgore.bsky.social · 4mo ago

He spent years investigating Opus Dei, a Catholic group accused of a vast conspiracy of abuse. Then Pope Leo asked to meet. My interview with @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

@garethgore.bsky.social: "We have to let the light in. The truth has to emerge.” Our friend, Gareth, met with the Pope last week to discuss his groundbreaking reporting on the secretive organization, Opus Dei. Check out our newsletter on the meeting: courtaccountability.substack.com/p/pope-leo-i...

Pope Leo, in Meeting with Journalist, Sends Message to Opus Dei Abusers

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Leonard Leo, who ProPublica called “an architect of the right-wing takeover of the courts,” is deeply embedded within Opus Dei. Leo helps fund the Opus Dei-affiliated Catholic Information Center in Washington, DC. @alexaronson.bsky.social @garethgore.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/courtacc...

Pope Leo, in Meeting with Journalist, Sends Message to Opus Dei Abusers

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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 A THREAD 🧵

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I picked up Gareth's book last year and it manages that rare balancing act of taking an interesting subject and telling it in a way that foregrounds the story without being consumed by it. Genuinely great to see it get recognised and hopefully acted upon.

Gareth Gore@garethgore.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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 A THREAD 🧵

Journalist and author Gareth Gore shares what he said during his audience with Pope Leo XIV March 16: "By putting on record what information I shared with the pope in the meeting, nobody can now turn around and say: Well, we didn't know."

Gareth Gore: My audience with Pope Leo

Journalist and author Gareth Gore shares what he said during his audience with Pope Leo XIV March 16: "By putting on record what information I shared with the pope in the meeting, nobody can now turn ...

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Pope Leo met on Monday with an investigative journalist who alleges that a prominent Catholic organisation with ​ties to right-wing politicians in the U.S. and other countries ‌covered up sexual and financial crimes, which the group firmly denies. For @reuters.com

Pope meets author urging investigation of Catholic group Opus Dei

Pope Leo met on Monday with an investigative journalist who alleges that a prominent Catholic organisation with ​ties to right-wing politicians in the U.S. and other countries ‌covered up sexual and f...

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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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Gareth is one the best financial journalists in the business, but even by that standard, being invited to see the Pope after writing an excoriating investigation of a group that is recognise by the Catholic church is quite something

Gareth Gore@garethgore.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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 A THREAD 🧵