Overview
- Prelate Fernando Ocáriz and auxiliary vicar Mariano Fazio met the Pope and outlined the organization’s institutional view of controversies in Argentina.
- Argentine prosecutors are advancing a case that began with claims by 43 former members who say they worked without pay, leading in 2023 to allegations of trafficking and labor exploitation.
- Opus Dei rejects criminal wrongdoing and says reporting has conflated labor and pension disputes with penal accusations.
- Investigators sought in 2024 to question several former vicars; in July 2025 they requested Fazio’s indagatory statement, and the complainants’ lawyer moved to add Ocáriz.
- León XIV told the leaders the statute revision remains under study by the Dicastery for the Clergy after a June submission, and the meeting also covered evangelization, vocations and included an apostolic blessing.