[Teófilo]

I liked it; in fact, I thought it was excellent. I am not that great a fan of JPII, who I think should have done more to correct the horrible errors of the "spirit of Vatican II," but this was an excellent movie, and focused on what he did well and the events that had probably contributed a lot to his development and focus.

I disagree. I think he did. Check this other post of mine, for example: The Church before Pope John Paul the Great. That he didn't turn the clock back on everything, however, is to his merit and not something to be faulted.

[livius]

I didn't want him to "turn back the clock." I wanted him to exert a little authority over the bishops here, something he was never able to do here or anywhere else, for that matter. If somebody had kicked these jerks out (most of them appointed under Paul VI and Msgr. Jadot), dioceses would not be having to declare bankruptcy and sell their churches today. In my mind, JPII failed in many ways, particularly in the US.

But only God knows how these things work out. JPII abandoned the Church in the US, but he did good things elsewhere. In addition, he was heroic in his death. He was a media person, and when a media person lets himself be filmed in extremis, obviously sick, dying, and shocking to those who have never seen this before, that person has (in my mind) moved on to heroic virtue.