So once he got to Rome, he went native. Just like people from Europe and Great Britain come here and go native. For some reason, people seem to gravitate towards the lowest common denominator of the culture when they move to another country - rather than the best. Why is that I wonder?
A huge amount of energy and time is spent lying about evil. When people start to live evil lives, they don't just claim they love evil - they lie about it, and claim it is good. And a huge amount of HOW they do that is by hiding in the grey areas and shadows of their environment, their culture, their language, all of the things they hold in common with other natives.
When they go to another country, that infrastructure is gone. They don't know the lay of the land yet, so to speak. They can't blend in cuturally, because they don't really know the nuances of the culture yet, where the grey areas are that they can hide in.
So they just act as they really are. The new culture, the new country, doesn't change them - they are merely exposed for what they already turned themselves into. Think of a predatory animal with a camoflauged winter coat going to a summer climate, before they can shed their coat. They're still a predator.
I don’t think you know much about him. He actually studied at the Legionaries of Christ seminary - this was the group founded by the odious Father Maciel, who was a polyfacetd sexual abuser who had several women but also abused young men and boys, including his own son - while at the same time building a religious order that was supposed t be known for its orthodoxy. The Polish priest met his paramour, a Catalan seminarian at the time, at the Legionaries’ seminary.
But Pope JPII protected Maciel (who was Mexican), probably because he thought the order was orthodox and maybe he didn’t believe the reports about Macel’s misdeeds. But as JPII grew weaker, Ratzinger started cracking down on Maciel, and virtually his first act as Pope was to remove Maciel from the priesthood and send him to the equivalent of a monastic jail. Maciel died shortly afterwards.
But I think the forces behind Maciel, which obviously Imcluded some Poles, were probably in alliance with the forces that had wanted to elect Bergoglio, and they were the ones who somehow forced out BXVI (possibly by threatening to blacken the name of JPII).