(b) The Roman Catholic Church numbers more than one billion persons now alive. Non-Catholics often imagine that the pope can unleash lightning from the sky generically and make all the miscreants go kaboom while simultaneously denying that popes are anything special. If you are making decisions when you are in his condition or when you are 84 and you make them as well as he does, I will be more impressed. Personally I would burn the miscreants at the stake verrrrrrry slowly and sell tickets to the festivities but it is JP II's job to run the Church not my job.
Finally, my previous posts to you still stand. RCC self-governance is simply none of your non-Catholic business. The First Amendment freedom of worship stands for that proposition. The First Amendment freedom of speech simply means that you are allowed to talk free of government interference. That provision does not require any Catholic to pay you any attention.
And my position stands, and I don't care what you or any other Papsist thinks: He is way beyond irrelevant when he coddles dictators. He is senile or a dupe, since he did call Tariq Aziz a "man of peace." He has no business criticizing what he perceives as American decadence, when his "church" is full of sexual predators with a penchant for boy flesh.