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    <title><![CDATA[Ara in English - Opus Dei]]></title>
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      <title><![CDATA[The impact on public education in Girona of the privatization of two Opus Dei centers: "Everything is uncertain"]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.ara.cat/society/the-impact-public-education-in-girona-from-the-privatization-of-two-opus-dei-centers-everything-is-uncertain_130_5675708.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/e174eb35-7ada-4756-ad62-d55725939bc1_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>Nassima arrives at the Girona Municipal School Enrollment Office (OME) completely exhausted. She had an appointment at ten in the morning, and it's now past ten-fifteen. "I went to work this morning, convinced the appointment was for tomorrow... I'm so stressed out with all this pre-registration stuff," she exclaims. A single mother with three children, her middle son is autistic, she had a premonition of this situation three years ago. That's when she fought hard with the Education Department to prevent her eldest, now 14, from starting secondary school at the Opus Dei-run school for boys in Girona, Bell-lloc College. "I wanted him to go to a public school," she exclaims, "but they didn't give me any alternatives then, and now I'd better figure it out. I can see my eldest will have to go study on the other side of the city because there are no other options or places available."</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mariona Ferrer i Fornells]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 12 Mar 2026 06:01:04 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Students at the Bell-lloc school in Girona. In 2022, the end of segregated education began because the school refused to relinquish its funding agreement. Now, in the 2026-2027 academic year, it will be privatized to continue accepting only boys.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The end of the concert at Bell-lloc and Les Alzines, with 2,300 students, due to the desire to continue segregating, forces 200 to be divided into a dozen new groups in schools and institutes]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Opus Dei's number two accused of trafficking poor women for labor exploitation in Argentina]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.ara.cat/international/opus-dei-s-number-two-accused-of-trafficking-poor-women-for-labor-exploitation-in-argentina_1_5431303.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/c114a41b-765e-4339-a2b7-271ec0f04791_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>Opus Dei's number two, auxiliary vicar Mariano Fazio, was formally accused of trafficking women for the<a href="https://es.ara.cat/media/series/monica-terribas-denuncia-abusos-opus-dei-debilitan-personas-no-decisiones_1_5276520.html" >labor exploitation within their religious order in conditions of semi-slavery</a>, a practice that Opus Dei allegedly committed for four decades in Argentina. This is stated in the eight-page document to which access has been obtained.<em> ElDiario.es</em>, within the judicial process opened against the highest leaders of Opus Dei in Argentina. Opus Dei –that is, the number two in the order worldwide– and lives in the Vatican, asks to be charged along with four leaders of the order in the country who had already been accused. The request was sent on June 11 to federal judge Daniel Rafecas by prosecutors Alejandra Mángano_ initially included in the indictment, which did charge the three priests who had held the same position as him in previous and subsequent years: the former regional vicars of Argentina Carlos Nannei (1991-2000), Patricio Olmos (2000-2010) and Víctor Urrestarazu (2014) female member of Opus Dei in Argentina, Gabriel Dondo. Fazio had also been a regional vicar between 2010 and 2014.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[ARA]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 03 Jul 2025 08:46:37 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Mariano Fazio during a ceremony in Rome.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[Prosecutors are asking to charge Mariano Fazio along with the four clerics already accused by 43 women.]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[The influence of El Yunque, Opus Dei, and anti-Francisco Robert Sarah on Vox]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.ara.cat/politics/the-influence-of-yunque-opus-dei-and-anti-francisco-robert-sarah-vox_1_5366037.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/7e0ca3bf-020c-4816-914a-789e0d48b69d_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>With the <a href="https://en.ara.cat/international/the-pope-who-tried-to-change-the-church-dies_1_5353506.html" target="_blank">death of Pope Francis</a> Condolences emerged, also from the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal. <a href="https://x.com/Santi_ABASCAL/status/1914234568879546634?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1914234568879546634%7Ctwgr%5E662a01fd2923e7c6621562fd7b8ffca58446f55e%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eldiario.es%2Fsociedad%2Fultima-hora-reacciones-muerte-papa-francisco-directo_6_12233625_1113332.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">very concise manner</a>, joined "the prayers of millions of Catholics for the soul of Francis"; nothing to do with <a href="https://x.com/Santi_ABASCAL/status/1609140370331295744" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">gratitude to Benedict XVI when he died</a>, praising his call to "be creative minorities that leaven society with good" and his "love for Spain." Vox fought Francis's views on immigration and poverty, with which the Pope warned world leaders. For this reason, Abascal went so far as to label him "Citizen Bergoglio" and has fraternized with critics such as the ultraconservative Cardinal Robert Sarah, an enemy of Francis. In fact, the party has officials linked to the secret ultra-Catholic organization El Yunque, with paramilitary beginnings, and the ultra-conservative Opus Dei has quite a few officials. What Catholic network is influencing Vox?</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Roger Palós]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 02 May 2025 12:23:59 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Santiago Abascal]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The Spanish far right has strong ties to ultraconservative Catholic sectors.]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA['Serviam / Non serviam': still on 'The Heroic Minute']]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.ara.cat/opinion/serviam-non-serviam-still-the-heroic-minute_129_5336996.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/b6692e1d-08e6-4bb0-8e2d-fd00a01c00fe_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.png" /></p><p>"<em>Non serviam</em>" ("I will not serve you" in Latin) are the words that Christian tradition attributes to Lucifer, when he rebels against God and lets him know that he renounces him. James Joyce uses this expression in his <em>Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man</em>, when his Stephen Dedalus decides to live an artist's life and, as he puts it: "No longer serve that in which I do not believe, be it called home, family or Church" (you can read the work in the Catalan translation by Teresa Vernet; I don't think there is a more recent version). Generally, "<em>Non serviam</em>It is considered an expression of rebellion that can be invoked by all those who rise up against the dominant way of thinking.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sebastià Alzamora]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 03 Apr 2025 16:49:51 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA['The heroic minute'.]]></media:title>
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      <title><![CDATA["I have never had the need to occupy a position or a seat"]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.ara.cat/media/have-never-had-the-need-to-occupy-position-or-seat_128_5286165.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/fbd73972-c612-4afb-810a-daf8e784314c_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>Even with enormous difficulties, we live in a time in which attempts are being made to dismantle systemic abuses. Mònica Terribas has just released <em>The heroic minute</em>, a docuseries by Max made by The Mediapro Studio that shows the coercive control of women of different ages and places belonging to Opus Dei. We take advantage of the interview to talk calmly about her life, the controversies she has experienced, leaving the radio and the passage of time.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Àlex Gutiérrez]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 15 Feb 2025 16:01:14 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Mònica Terribas: "I have never had the need to occupy a position or a seat"]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[Journalist, director of the documentary series 'The Heroic Minute' (Max)]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Six Opus Dei schools will mix boys and girls to avoid losing subsidies]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.ara.cat/society/six-opus-dei-schools-will-mix-boys-and-girls-to-avoid-losing-subsidies_1_4274432.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/95bed84a-3aa1-42e9-a97d-24afe60a99f5_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>Only five of the 16 schools in Catalonia that used to separate students by sex will remain. The Institució Familiar d'Educació group, which manages ten schools in Catalonia, has announced that its secondary school groups will go co-ed as of next year. The measure, advanced by <em>Diari de Girona</em>, affects the centers of La Farga in Sant Cugat del Vallès (until now only for boys), La Vall (until now only for girls), Les Alzines (for girls) and Bell-lloc del Pla (for boys) in Girona and Institució Tarragona (formed by schools Aura, for girls, and Turó, for boys), and adds to what had already been done by schools in Igualada (Montclar and Mistral) and Lleida (Terraferma and Arabell). In total, there will remain five schools in Catalonia that will separate boys and girls, and they are the ones most closely linked to Opus Dei: Xaloc and Pineda, in L'Hospitalet; Viaró, in Sant Cugat; Camp Joliu, in L'Arboç, and Canigó, in Barcelona </p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Laia Vicens]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 16 Feb 2022 22:17:17 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[The El Valle de Bellaterra school, in an archive image]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[Only five single-sex schools in Catalonia remain]]></subtitle>
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