I wonder where his soul is.
I hope not Hell! As bad as he was, I hope he converted prior to his death. He harmed billions of souls, if he is in Hell, the thought is horrifying.
I don't think he was as bad as many people have pointed him out to be precisely from more traditional Catholics. He was big in my conversion towards Catholicism and most specifically because my family was really close to him.
It is through that some of his actions have been controversial and definetly not the best of them. Kissing the Koran, massive ecuмenicalism, Altar girls, and more.
He however also did good actions, some which I am pretty sure we would not even be close to doing. These include forgiving the man who shot him, whom happened to convert to the Catholic faith because of this, and loosening some unwanted tensions with other faiths.
I think that John Salza perhaps put it best in his online article
No criticism of John Paul II?John Salza states that we should not forget to differentiate the difference between the pope's objective actions and his subjective intentions. Many people think they know everything to criticize the pope as somehow they know his mind, which is obviously not true.