Sorry not to share your opinions
As someone else said in another forum "He probably also a role working with aids in Africa".
He was against the use of condom, so I guess thousands of people died from AIDS before JP II did, just to follow his words. I think that saying to people in Africa not to use condoms was criminal. Round 25% of the population is infected wit HIV in Africa.
A small part of the money the catholic church has in Vatican banks would have helped saving them, paying tritherapy and antiretroviral treatments... The ones who make them do not want to sell them at low price to Africa, Asia or Latin America. Of course who cares, they are poor, they are not financially interesting.
Not only the church could help them, I suppose a war in Irak costs more money than the eradication of pendemic diseases, but once again, who cares ?
I am from Polish extraction, and my family is catholic, but I never liked the ideas the church is propagating. I don't care people are catholic, bouddhist, protestants, muslims etc. Everyone has the right to love the god he wants and to think what ever he wants but when I think to all the harm the catholic church did during 2000 years, I wonder if there is god behind this. What could I think from a pope blessing the German cannons during WW2 ?
This is just my opinion, and of course this is sad JP II died. But everyone of us will pass away and there are great people in this forum. Nobody will talk about them on TV when they die. So this is just the death of a 85 years old sick man. He should have resigned years ago, he was not able to assume his job anymore and there were other people taking decisions for him. Remember Reagan ? Do you really think he could have been president of the US the last years before he died (assuming he was he intellectually able when he was in charge...) ?