If you were the boss, would you help your lower management if they thwarted your every order? Or would you let them crash and burn and then pick up the pieces.
I agree with this assessment completely, as it has been my own for several years. Furthermore, its myopic to judge the entire Church based on the abberrations of the West, which represents only a fraction of Catholics worldwide.
despite a few upsetting details like the collapse of the institutional church and unthinkable corruption of the clergy that occurred on his watch.
They occurred long before his watch. The beginning of the turning of the tide against this is occurring as a capstone at the ending of his pontificate.
No matter how much it pains traditionalists, history will see JPII as the Pope that began the turnaround from the destruction that started in the mid 20th century. They will see his approach as the only one available at his time in history.
Doesn't mean I like living through it, or that I don't question it at times as I did above.