Part 3
It is not "an adulation nor [an]idolatry of Vatican II" when educated Catholics throughout the U.S. and world don't accept any hierarchy's reversion to the safe, predictable and controlling governance over the laity and society in general.  The casualties of JP II and Benedict's authoritarian leadership was a death of community identity, communion and the bonds of trust.  This was shattered when the patronizing elite hierarchy assumed that the baptismal gifts which were given to all, should be doled out like presents [as if they were a privilege] rather than see them as a RIGHT given to ALL.

Most Catholics no accept being treated as children.  That is the concept of infantilism, and no longer works in the modern world.  In a world that is more open and questioning, the official church struggles to maintain the loyalty of its members.  What is said to Catholics must pass through the lens of reason and experience.  It must make sense.