Having said that, I may find this the final attempt to make clear why I found Penny Lernoux's book such an important read. The facts show that JPII could behave in ways that shamed and intimidated bishops and priest that had any ideas of their own. He all but decimated the church in the Netherlands. But for protest on the part of concerned catholics lay and clergy some would not have been reinstated without embarrassing and humiliating strictures. He opposed liberation theology in the Third World. 
    And he preached economic justice referring to the parable to Lazarus and the Rich Man-great men are often men of even greater paradox. What is important is to assess realistically their legacy so that the people of God, lay and clergy together may mover forward in wisdom and truth.
As long as we are brainwashed by false narratives we cannot learn to tell the true one, which is our salvation. Forget Franklin Graham. There are religious paths to hell. WHAT BECAME OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD?