Four Corners: Jan 30

Four Corners returns for 2023 on Monday as Louise Milligan’s story ‘Purity: An Education in Opus Dei,’ takes viewers inside the suburban schools connected to the secretive Opus Dei.

Reporter Louise Milligan and the team investigate the disturbing practices of the conservative Catholic organisation and its influence in the NSW Liberal Party.

Milligan reveals in some cases the schools are not following state curriculum and are accused of persistent attempts to recruit teenagers to Opus Dei and have taught misinformation about sexual health, including discouraging girls from getting the HPV cervical cancer vaccine.

Through intimate personal testimonies, former students of the elite schools reflect on the practices they say has scarred them for life, going as far as to call the schools “hell on earth”.

Monday 30th January at 8.30pm on ABC.