>>Perhaps he was a bit distracted by some bigger fish to fry like defeating the Soviet Union in eastern Europed including his home country of Poland.<<
So what was the excuse after the 80’s?
JPII was a wonderfully spiritual man who let the libs run away with the church. He spent more time talking to heathens than the conservative Catholics, who were begging him to do something.
B16 is cleaning up his mess.
I don’t think that’s totally fair. JP Magnus wasn’t the hardline conservative I would have liked him to be, in the end, but he was no liberal either.
JP2 was doing the groundwork that led to the election of Benedict XVI, which would have been unthinkable in the 1980s.