People are so busy discussing ridiculous things they can’t take the time to look at what opus dei does openly. Don’t they have a pontifical college? Doesn’t it have a school of journalism?
Any Opus Dei members here?
Parker Sullivan
Aiden Johnson
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Logan Nguyen
In Spain opus dei is strong. Some former political ministers (economy, defense, etc.) And politicians are members. And as Spanish I can say two things about them:
1- it seems that there is a secret war between jesuist and Opus dei. One of them is left wing and other is right wing, the two of them have their own book editorial, schools, influence in the government, etc.
2- if you go to the day to day for them, they are more similar to an American sect: they work for the Opus Dei, they give a part of their salary to the Opus Dei, the Opus Dei gives home, work and food in exchange. It's hard to leave the Opus Dei because almost all your belongings are theirs. I find this wrong because so you force uninterested people who dislike you to do things for you and they could make things against the group if he finds that it would make him feel better.
Conclusion: IMO Opus Dei is legal and maybe their objective is good. But I don't find them or their ways good. They work as a closed group and their survival needs members that give them money and work for them almost like a sect. I find a lot better a monastical life with the Franciscans or the Carmelites before this. But yes, my vision is biased, as I distrust the people that say "viva Cristo rey" or that they are members of Opus Dei. And also I was in a Catholic marianist institute.