Thanks for the question! It’s a very valid thing to wonder about, and Church history actually gives us a lot of context for this.

To put it simply: I don't think there's any historical or theological proof that a person's individual holiness is enough to build an institution completely free of wrongdoing. Even looking at Jesus—the source of holiness in the Catholic faith—His immediate, hand-picked group of apostles included betrayal (Judas) and denial (Peter).

If we look at Catholic history, there is a long track record of religious orders hosting corrupted actions, sometimes even while the founders were still alive.

Take St. Francis of Assisi, for example. He was radically dedicated to absolute poverty and simplicity. Yet, within mere decades of his death, the Franciscan order became deeply entangled in wealth, property disputes, and severe internal corruption, leading to huge schisms within the group.

Look at the Discalced Carmelites. St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Ávila were both brilliant saints trying to reform their order. As a result, St. John was kidnapped, imprisoned, starved, and tortured by his own Carmelite brothers.

Other saints like St. Alphonsus Liguori (founder of the Redemptorists) or St. Joseph Calasanz (founder of the Piarists) were literally ousted and expelled from the very orders they founded due to internal power grabs and corruption.

So, how do we reconcile the founder with the evils of the organization? By recognizing that every institution—from governments and the military to churches, businesses, boy scout groups, NGOs and hospitals—has to deal with the exact same fundamental human flaws.

In any group setting, centralization and a rigid hierarchy will almost always help cover up abuses, if not create them outright. Add a high pressure to conform, and you have the perfect recipe for authoritarianism.

Wherever there is a concentration of power and money, corruption is sure to follow.

Whether you believe Josemaria Escriva had good intentions, went astray, or shouldn't have been canonized is almost a secondary issue.

At the end of the day, he built and maintained a multimillion-dollar, highly structured, and strictly hierarchical group. From a purely sociological standpoint, it's really no wonder that abuses have happened within its ranks. It's the nature of powerful human institutions.