Before March, 2013, during the thirty five years or so, the papacy and the Vatican curia had slipped into a state of selective amnesia.   To assist the process, a demand for a total, unilateral, passive and blind obedience to the Wojtyla-Ratzinger papacies was intensified.  The Vatican spin doctors cosmeticized this and so the expected attitude of groveling had to undergo an upgrade to Christ. This served as another example of coded ecclesiastical dialect for loyalty to the pope and [HIS] personal Magisterium.  Most of the JP II 'new ecclesial communities' had defined their existence along those lines.  They seemed incapable of distinguishing between the person of JP II-Benedict and Jesus Christ.  They proclaimed loyalty to the pope and his magisterium with such cultic overtones that they demonstrate little or no concept of the centrality of the Gospel.  Jesus Christ, the Reign of God and the mystery of grace and mercy were all trivialized beyond imagination.

God bless Pope Francis!