And in 1986 when +ABL admitted?:

"I am on the way to saying the Pope is not Pope"

 "it is possible we may be obliged to believe [John Paul II] is not pope."

What about it? He died 5 years later and still said that the pope was the pope. I think after dealing face to face with both PPVI and also JP2 in 1980 (I think) and 1988, that if anything, he would have had no doubt whatsoever. So quote the good archbishop all you want, he had plenty of time to actually accept it before he died, but he never did. That fact is indisputable.