He's my fourth Paul VI, John Paul I (a terrible choice of name, as the first in such a series is only so named after a second comes to be; seeing the old books which refer to, "Queen Elizabeth" is amusing, but I digress), John Paul II and the present.
I was, however, not looking to merely those in my lifetime (though of those I've been alive to see, he is probably the worst, probably ranking them Benedict XVI, Paul VI, John Paul II, and John Paul I, the last of which had the potential of being one of the best popes in the history of the church, even had he lived for so little as another month).
John Paul II was conservative, and mildly reactionary; Bendecict is downright reactionary, as his name indicates.
He has the potentional to be more damaging to the Church as Pius IX.
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I was, however, not looking to merely those in my lifetime (though of those I've been alive to see, he is probably the worst, probably ranking them Benedict XVI, Paul VI, John Paul II, and John Paul I, the last of which had the potential of being one of the best popes in the history of the church, even had he lived for so little as another month).
John Paul II was conservative, and mildly reactionary; Bendecict is downright reactionary, as his name indicates.
He has the potentional to be more damaging to the Church as Pius IX.
TK