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Some of my friends are members of the Opus Dei, or rather, attend Opus Dei retreats and have as a confessor a priest who is a member of Opus Dei. And they obey him blindly without questioning anything.

These folks are not concerned with what the Pope is doing. They just pray for him, try to pray unceasingly, and above all follow the teaching of St. Matthew, "Judge Not."

Matthew 6:34 - 7:1-5 (Douay-Rheims) states:

Be not therefore solicitous for to morrow; for the morrow will be solicitous for itself. Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.

JUDGE not, that you may not be judged,

For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again.

But why lookest thou on the mote that is in the eye of thy brother, but observest not the beam that is in thine eye?

Or how sayest thou to thy brother: Let me cast the mote out of thy eye; and behold a beam is in thy own eye?

Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam in thy own eye, and then shalt thou see to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

Does St. Matthew tell us to check our reasoning out the door when we are baptized?
This does not seem to be the case.

Remember our Church history: Did not St. Nicholas of Myra slap Arius across the face when Arias proclaimed that there was a time when Jesus Christ was not God?

Our Ecuмenical Councils were held to judge and condemn folks like Arius.

So what does "Judge Not" really mean?

I have to go back in memory to a religion class in the early 1960's.
"Judge Not" means unjust and unfounded judgments without the
facts. This is the most common sin. People hear something through
gossip and hearsay and repeat it. The person or persons that it aimed
at suffers the destruction of his name and his reputation. It is best
not to pass on anything heard from a gossiping person. Also, it would
be advisable not to repeat anything from a hearsay source.
We have to be constantly be on guard what is said today about our
religion. There is obvious heresy and error everywhere.  This has
to be condemned.
In the time of Arias in the 5th Century, there was no internet, many
people could not read and write. However, they knew their faith
better than the faithful today. A heretical Priest would be called
down on his pulpit and the town square teaching heresies.
Majority of Bishops whom were educated went along the heresies
of Arias. The church survived by the faithful whom many could
not read and write calling these heretics down.
I would not have anything to do with the Opus Dei.

I have no books to sell.

Thanks