Yes, you are missing something. As a Protestant of whatever denomination or none, you have no standing to whine about how the pope governs the Roman Catholic Church. The RCC is not your Church. The RCC is not your business. Mind your own business.
Your only alternative routes to relevance on matters Catholic and/or on JP II are to:
1. Become a Roman Catholic; or
2. Accomplish as much in your own life as JP II has in his.
As an American, you think your opinion is automatically relevant without furth effort but it is not. Opinions are like ......... Well, you know the rest.
I don't care how he runs that church. If I were you, I'd be scared for my son, if I had one.
I have a problem with any foreigner criticizing my President and my country, especially when it's right after he's heaped praise on Saddam's henchman.
You can clear something up right quick: Did he (a) call Tariq Aziz "a man of peace"? and (b)shouldn't he clear up the moral dengenerants in his own house before criticizing America's morals?