The Church of the last 30 years [pontificates of JP II and Benedict] was the church of 1930-40's under totalitarian regimes.  That church reflected both Karol Wojtyla and Joseph Ratzinger's theology and spiritual composition.  It had nothing to do with Vatican II or the ensuing decades.

Wojtyla rejected social communism, but believed in ecclesiastical communism.  He loved secret societies, triumphalism in the Church, clericalism, and the laity to STAY out of Church governance.  He did not believe in freedom of speech and other WESTERN beliefs, either.  We received a Church that was put into a spiritual body cast both from both popes.  And we had too many bishops and theologians like Weinandy who thought that this was fine and healthy for the Church.

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