Don,
I have long concluded that the canonization of JPII was orchestrated and controlled by the conservatives in the Vatican.  They may not have liked the first part of his pontificate, but as he aged and became both more conservative, and more frail, the conservatives had their day.  As you noted, that he could be canonized with his record on abuse is unconscionable.  To pretend that it's OK to ignore that, or to somehow sweep all of that under the carpet, is beyond belief to me.  OK, sadly, all too sadly, I really CAN believe it.  And therein lies the problem perhaps...