Three pontificates, a thing about the death of Benedict XVI

Karol Wojtyła made a fundamental mistake defending the Church, as if he were inactive surviving in communist Poland, and tightening up the loop of obedience and command, in which Ratzinger was a eager helper. Most of the scandals that the Church is facing now have its sources in the era of John Paul II, who sought evil around – in modernity, liberalism, left-wingness, changing customs, not where terrible evil grew – in the Church.