Have you no shame? Your response is no better than that of the rioting Penn State students. Even if Paterno was a great coach, all that credit is lost by his enabling of homo abuse. The same applies to JP2, only much more so.
The troubles were not with the bishops he appointed, but those whom he intherited.
For decades JP2 extolled and defended the homo abuser running the Legionaries of Christ, despite numerous true allegations from victimized former seminarians. It was not until JP2 fell sick that Cardinal Ratzinger was finally able to take action. This is just one bad example among many.
It is wrong to desecrate the institution of sainthood just to whitewash the crimes of a notorious homo abuse enabler. When JP2 appointed his fellow homo abuse enabler, the disgraced Cardinal Bernard Law, to be archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, JP2 demonstrated that even by that late date, he had not yet repented of his dereliction. It was left to Benedict XVI to acknowledged and apologize for the homo abuse since JP2 never did.
Law, Weakland, Mahoney, et al, were elevated to bishops all prior to Pope John Paul’s papacy.
Again, look at the bishops that Pope John Paul elevated during his long pontificate. That the problem has been dealt with is evidence that Pope John Paul did not coddle the abuse.
He is a great pope. Really, he is and I was fortunate enough to make it under his pontificate.