So in mid-June, when the bishops' conference of the United States met for its plenary assembly in Denver, Ratzinger sent to then-president of the conference Wilton Gregory - the very one whom Pope Francis would install in Washington in 2019 and make cardinal in 2020 - and to McCarrick as head of the commission for “domestic policy” a note on “general principles” that would lead to the denial of communion for Catholic politicians who systematically campaign for abortion.
The fact that John Paul II did not correct or reprimand McCarrick's outright deception of the Holy See's instruction to deny Holy Communion to pro-abort politicians could lead some to question both Pope Benedict's and Bergoglio's rush to canonize JP II.
Ping
As you said, “deception.” If the Presidency is a role far beyond one man’s abilities, the papacy is fifty times moreso. Herein, lies the grave failures, or diabolical efforts, of the curia.