But none of this sounds anything like what John Paul has written in Encyclicals or his books.
I have to disagree with you on one point, I think John Paul is a masterful writer. But these actions sound nothing like what he has written. How could he expect to get a holy Church by making reprobates into Cardinals?
If this is true, is it possible he writes one thing (beautifully), but does another? It's just so confusing! How is one to know the real Pope, by what he says or what he does?
"If this is true, is it possible he writes one thing (beautifully), but does another? It's just so confusing! How is one to know the real Pope, by what he says or what he does?"
This has always been the problem. He will not explain his actions. How are we to reconcile his encyclicals admonishing priests against liturgical abuses with his own outdoor papal Masses which are scandalous, sometimes in the extreme? Eyewitnesses tell of bikers chasing down the Blessed Sacrament with beer, of Sacred Hosts falling into the mud and being trampled upon while being distributed like potato chips from cardboard boxes. How are we to reconcile Dominus Iesus with his offering of our sacred altars to witchdoctors and Hindu priests for the worship of false gods? It makes no sense. You are not the only one with questions. I myself have been wrestling with these facts for years. Nobody has come up with a good explanation--and yet the facts are there--staring us in the face. What kind of a pope elevates heretics to the cardinalate or prays in a synagogue with rabbis their prayer for the coming of a different Messiah or canonizes more saints than all the other popes put together while doing away with the safeguards guaranteeing the integrity of the process? Certainly not one who respects Catholic tradition.