I wonder how many posters have any personal experiences with Opus Dei, and how many simply google to find what they are looking for?
Opus Dei, in my experience, attracted many good Catholics to practice their faith within a group of Catholics. They also attracted men and women who, for their own reasons did not want to become nuns and priests, but could offer their lives to God in a 'working' way. How many posters have done that?
That said, they are 'blessed' in the manner they accuмulate property and wealth. No more than the Church of 2,000 years did judging by the property and buildings they accuмulated up to 1960. If one finds fault in this, then the Church itself must share that fault. As individuals, they do not share in any wealth, but live modestly as any Catholic should.
Unfortunately, such is their 'system' that volunteers are inclined to become institutionalised, with little or no opinion of their own. They must comply to what unfortunately is obedience to modernist Rome without QUESTION.
To sum up, one recently told me Pope Francis is 'a breath of fresh air.' Need I say any more.
All this as it may be, there are in its ranks many Catholics living very good lives as God would want us to do.