text: The longer term issue for us is this...which, for our children's children's kids is more important--that the Church start making decision in a democratic fashion at least among the college of bishops, or that some pope or other gives us what we progressives all want? With the obvious implication that the next one could reverse it all!
  
  I have no doubt that in the very long term getting out of the insanity of V1 is vastly more important. We should try and remember that the positive movement of the Church after V2 was terminated and reversed by the theology of V1. It is ONLY because JP2 and B16 believed, to put it harshly, that by their being elected "Vicar of Christ on Earth" that God was selecting their theology as that which should be imposed on his Holy People. 
  
  Nothing, IMHO, is more important for the long term future of Christianity, than that we get beyond V1.