I have, in fact, posted for years that JPII should have faced consequences.
Absolutely, if the is declared a saint he will be the patron saint of pedophile apologists.
Groups of people who had been raped by priests as children went to him and asked for him to clean things up. It was the same as when Russians went to Stalin to tell uncle Joe about the awful things going on in Siberia...NADA.
At least the current pope is quite a bit better, though not as good as one might want.
It was a sad circumstance, indeed. He was an amazing Pope on so many levels, especially helping the Eastern bloc nations throw off communism. I continue to think that, at the time, his and Paterno’s, the very thought of such filth was almost just blocked out of their minds by revulsion.
Now, finally, no one can avoid this stomach-turning and pathetic reality any more. One sincerely hopes that strenuous convictions of child rapists now may in the future result in fewer men and women who believe themselves to be homosexuals. Personally, I believe that the gratuitous sexual penetration of any child under the age of 15 should result in a death sentence.
BTW, I greatly admire Benedict. (I am not a Catholic.) He was the theological brains behind JPII, and had he assumed the papacy when younger, he would have been even more influential. At least he has tried to address this painful wound.