You said it. I hope The Church stays on the conservative path.
I would too. However, my preferences for the Catholic Church should be irrelevant, since I'm not a Catholic.
The TRUE church will. Pope John Paul II was a Pope that kept the Catholic Church lined up with the Holy Scripture. Anything less, will be a watered down version. I am not Catholic, but this is what we have experienced in the Evangelical Protestant movement. Watering down the true Gospel of Jesus Christ, be it in the Catholic or Protestant denominations, is NOT the Gospel as Jesus taught it. It becomes man made, and loses its power.