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As part of its extensive one sided adulation of JPII's 20th anniversary, National Catholic Register printed this report which quoted extensively from Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, the former secretary of JPII.
It failed to make it clear that Dziwisz was an utterly corrupt man whose actions cast another shadow over JPII's legacy.
Not only was Dziwisz involved in receiving corrupt payments from the appalling Marcial Maciel, abuser, embezzler and head of the Legionaries of Christ. Since his retirement as Archbishop of Krakow, Dziwisz has acquired a boyfriend and bought him an apartment. In his decades of working in close association with Dziwisz, did JPII never notice anything suspect about the guy?
There is loads more stuff that might make anyone have second thoughts about JPII. Like abolishing the Promoter of the Faith to enable mass production of saints. Kissing the Koran. Assisi 1986, though his defenders say he did not approve of some of the wackiest stuff which happened there.