# Opus Dei's Strategic Influence on American Conservatism

**Podcast:** FT Tech Tonic
**Published:** 2026-03-20

## Transcript

Opus Day is a controversial Catholic group known for its orthodoxy and discipline.
Aristocracy of blood, intelligence, and wealth.
We want only the best.
Only the best for God.
There's always been an idea in Opus Day of trying to be near the best, the elite of society.
I'm Antonia Cundi.
I'm a journalist with the Financial Times.
On the latest season of the Untold Podcast, I investigate how Opus Day has become central to the American conservative movement.
We were the closest tabernacle to the White House.
From small town chapels to Ivy League universities and Washington's corridors of power.
This is a story about Opus Day and the role it's playing in reshaping America.
Officially no.