12/05/2025
Tomorrow, at 0800 central time, my conversation with former Opus Dei assistant numerary and author Anne Marie Allen will go live over on The Deep Dive Project's YouTube Channel.
After I read her book "Serve: My Lost Years at the Heart of Ireland's Opus Dei," which is her written account of her experience being groomed and coerced into Opus Dei as an impressionable girl, in order to toil and slave as a member of the organization's servant class, I knew I needed to talk to her about it all.
While Opus Dei has impacted millions of people in a myriad of ways, the testimonies of former assistant numeraries have remained etched into my mind in a particular way.
There is something unspeakably horrific about the ways these women's lives where hijacked as children, under the guise of Christian duty and a godly calling, all for nothing more than to provide a free cleaning service for which many were never paid.
The defines human trafficking as "the recruitment, transportation, transferring, harboring or reciept of people through force, fraud, or deception, with the aim of exploiting them for profit."
So, I hope that you will tune in for the conversation tomorrow. Anne Marie has some things to say that I think we should all listen to.
"'I was a slave" - a conversation with former Opus Dei assistant numerary + author Anne Marie Allen" - https://youtu.be/WG6p8UtgZyk?si=0mYhcp2-jlZ7q4Ej
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