[Alex Murphy]

Actually, that was how I felt about JPII. He is known to have simply shrugged off the US as being out of control and beyond hope. JPII, despite our great hopes for him in 1979, did almost nothing to correct things in the Church here and did nothing about the US bishops until almost the very end, when a new nuncio was appointed. That nuncio started giving us some good bishops. But JPII was very much (too much, IMHO) into collegiality and prior to that did nothing in the face of poor performance or even defiance by bishops.

Had I posted that, I can think of a half-dozen FR Catholics who'd demand to have my head on a platter.

[wideawake]

You’re wrong there. Had you used that tone and limited your remarks to that scope, no one would have criticized you.

[AnAmericanMother]

If you’d posted anything that reasonable and fact-based, nobody would have said a word.

[Suzy Quzy]

Not me....Livius was right-on.

[livius]

I think there’s room for the analysis of any Pope’s activities. After all, he’s one of the most important public figures in the world and what he does (or doesn’t do) certainly has major consequences.