A French woman claiming to have been brainwashed by the secretive Catholic society Opus Dei is suing it for allegedly keeping her illegally as a domestic servant, she told AFP Tuesday.

The statue of the founder of Opus Dei, St Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer is blessed by Pope Benedict XVI in 2005. A French woman claiming to have been brainwashed by the secretive Catholic society is suing it for allegedly keeping her illegally as a domestic servant.

Catherine T., who asked not to be identified by her family name, said she joined a hoteliers’ school in northeastern France in 1985, aged 14, which she later discovered was run by associates of Opus Dei.

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