Opus Dei

Four Corners takes you inside the suburban schools connected to the secretive Opus Dei. Reporter Louise Milligan and the team investigate the disturbing ...

And I was just so traumatised by how the whole podcast had unfolded and how I'd been taken down so quickly that I just said, "No, I don't want to be part of it. ALEX: As Rosa realised I wasn't sleeping well and I was waking up in the middle of the night, she asked me if I wanted to come sleep on the floor in her room. The Premier was school captain at Redfield and his siblings went to Redfield and Tangara. Men are like dogs, and if you put the food in front of them, they have to eat it. SAM GREEN: She launched into us and, you know, was telling us it was a terrible idea for us to go and get this vaccine, it was encouraging us to sleep around, we are going to be sluts when we are older, all of these sorts of things. I think a lot of the parents at the schools are actually in the dark about what is happening inside those schools. If it didn't hurt, what kind of graces were you winning for the people that you were praying for to join Opus Dei? SAM GREEN: The school sent home a letter to the parents saying that we have to offer this to the girls, we recommend that they don't get it because it promotes promiscuity, it encourages them to sleep around and be unvirtuous to their future husbands. And we had to wear it one hour a day as a form of mortification, or what they’d call corporal mortification, mortification of the body. ALEX: So there were usually other people working in the centre that would liaise with you about the people that were attending and discuss with you who they thought were ‘strong targets’ for recruiting to Opus Dei as numeraries. ISABELLA KERSHAW, Class of 2020: We were given a piece of sticky tape and asked to pass it from person to person all the way around the class. Now I would say that Opus Dei's biggest realm of influence in Australia and where it is able to get the most traction is through these educational structures.

The Greens have called on the Australian and NSW governments to withdraw funding from four elite Sydney schools linked with the extremist sect Opus.

Meanwhile, private schools receive 106% of their SRS. “Tangara School for Girls, which indoctrinates its students into a perverse ‘purity’ culture, received $5 million in public money in 2021. “It’s bad enough that we know the richest schools in the country use our money for extravagences like plunge pools for headmasters and business class trips to sporting events.

The ABC journalist has allegedly been threatened by a graduate from a 'prominent family' of Redfield College in Dural, north-west Sydney.

Tangara School for Girls, Wollemi College and Montgrove College are among the schools that have also been investigated in the ABC segment. And of course I mean alma mater.' Tangara School for Girls, Wollemi College and Montgrove College are among the schools that have also been investigated in the ABC segment Redfield College is one of several schools named in an upcoming Four Corners investigation that will air on the public broadcaster on Monday night The private college is one of several schools named in an upcoming Four Corners investigation that will air on the public broadcaster on Monday night. The ABC journalist revealed she had been sent a threatening message from a graduate of Redfield College in Dural, north-west Sydney

Louise Milligan sniffs a story that might destroy the political career of the NSW Premier, Dominic Perrottet, ludicrously portrayed as a far-right politician.

ABC’s Four Corners has interviewed a former student of a Pared school, who contacted NESA with a complaint, and was told she needed to first contact the schools, which she felt was futile. A member of the Liberal Party! Any suggestion of links to anti-vaccine ideas is a sure winner for the ABC. The agenda is exposed. It actually focuses on the attack by the ABC on Catholic teachings on homosexuality. They prefer dad, dad and the kids. Pared Schools offer a personalised system of education, seeking to integrate the pursuit of academic excellence with an education in human virtues. The ABC is one of the prime agitators for the replacement of the traditional family with the rainbow version. It is an organisation of Catholic parents that sets out to provide an orthodox Catholic education to young people of faith. Though on the continuum occupied at the centre (they believe fervently) by the likes of SMH and ABC journalists, anyone to their right can automatically be labelled “ultra-conservative”. If you want to know about shadowy, behind-the-scenes influences in the NSW Liberal Party, you need look no further than the leftist lobbyists of And the never-quite-sated lust for revenge is palpable.