Opus Dei

Each came from religious movements long controversial in the Catholic world — the progressive Jesuits for Francis, the conservative Opus Dei for Gomez.

Most media attention on the Christian nationalist movement focuses on the white evangelicals, but there are also Opus Dei and the Catholic fa-right.

Mr Romanowski is reportedly a member of conservative Catholic group Opus Dei, who issued a denial earlier this week that the MP was being hidden by them.

Leo has used his connections within the Catholic Church, the Catholic Information Center, and his own religious networks—including Opus Dei—to further his cause.

Another quote that appears in the New York magazine piece is from Father Arne Panula, the vicar of Opus Dei, who was based in New York from 1998 to 2002, and who became director of the CIC until his death in 2017.