Yeah I never said they literally thought he was perfect, I said they acted as though they thought he was.
I pretty much agree with everything Raoul has said on this issue. There is no overlooking what JPII did. His actions show he was a modernist. He may have took up for the unborn but that is not enough to label him as a true conservative. Besides, he obviously knew that if he did not take up for the unborn then a large amount of people would begin to question his Papacy do to contradicting the Church's teaching that abortion is wrong. Of course, he also contradicted the Church's teaching that there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church, but due to the fact that Vatican II changed that and not the teachings on abortion, it would be easier for even the less-alert Catholic to detect that something is wrong if he had said abortion was ok.