To TKGS,
What you don't understand is that everything is not "black and white", "us and them".
And I speak as a member of the SSPX resistance.
Pope John Paul 2 had high wisdom. He knew that he could not restore the Latin Mass because there was insufficient grace in hearts across the church (lukewarmness) to accept to its light.
Luke 23:31"For if in the green wood they do these things, what shall be done in the dry?"
He sagely recognised that if he tried to do so (even if the impediment of the superforce in the Vatican permitted this) he would schism the whole church and make the situation even worse.
Thus he had to wait for the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart when tremendous graces will be released to the world and the restoration can take place.
He had to content himself with largely going on the road and preaching the Gospel.
The following analysis of Fr Malachi Martin (even if you think him a charlatan) is sound:
(Listen 6 - 8 minutes in)
Moreover, given the parlous state of the church, he knew neither would he get sufficient co-operation from rebellious Bishops to make the consecration of Russia. So he did a consecration of the world to yield some graces for the world and indeed when asked in 1982 in Fatima why he had not consecrated Russia he said he had:
"tried to do everything possible in the concrete circuмstances."
The pharasaical manner of certain traditionalists in which they condemn everything about the conciliar church, as if anyone associated is unwashed is repugnant and ignorant. I know from personal experience that there are some in the Novus Ordo far more devout and holy than in the traditional movement. And our approach should be that while thanking God for the grace of being members of tradition, we be most assiduous in praying for all our brothers and sisters in the church. Tradition should not be confused with salvation and neither Novus Ordo with perdition!
Contrary to the blind condemnation of Charlemagne, Pope John Paul 2 was a slave of Mary according to the devotion taught by St Louis Marie and a suffering victim. That is why providence is having him canonized.
We have testimony on his last words.
"Let me go to the Father's house."http://www.catholicculture.org/news/features/index.cfm?recnum=39699He went largely in the imitation of Christ - suffering, misunderstood, rejected, insulted and despised.