John Paul II died on April 2, 2005. Just six years later, Benedict XVI beatified him on May 1, 2011. This beatification added to and brought to completion the series of church scandals which characterized the career of John Paul II. In the eyes of the devotees of John Paul it constituted a canonization of the "new order" with all of its disasters of faith which are his true legacy:

• his obsession with the "androgynous" nature of the human body in his Wednesday audience addresses to pilgrims to Rome – an obsession codified in his Theology of the Body;
• the World Youth Days he presided over in various nations of the world, which gatherings were justly dubbed "Catholic Woodstocks";
• his World Day of Prayer held in Assisi – the very idea of which is condemned by Pope Pius XI in Mortalium Animas – during which took place such atrocities as Buddhists replacing the crucifix on the tabernacle with a statue of Buddha and worshiping it there;
• bowing his head to be anointed on the forehead by a Hindu priestess with sacred cow dung, and his bowing low to receive the blessing of an animist high priest;
• his multiple prayer visits to synagogues, during which he rarely mentioned Jesus by name, and never called Him Christ;
• the horrific abuse crisis which erupted in the years after Vatican II and burst into public view in the 1990's, dominating headlines during most of John Paul’s tenure, costing his church billions of dollars in court costs and settlements, and holding that church up to ridicule before the whole world but gaining himself sympathy by his abject apologies which blamed everyone else (notably the very bishops he had himself had appointed but for whose actions he took no responsibility – even retaining them all in position of power;
• the spectacle of hundreds of young ladies, wearing only flesh-colored leotards, dancing before his watchful gaze;
• the circus performances at his public audiences which featured male and female acrobats and contortionists in the skimpiest of skin-tight outfits;
• the stadium "masses" with fans doing "the wave" while shouting "JP-two, we love you!" and featuring the most immoral rock and pop-singers performing their songs as "hymns";
• his 1983 new Code of Canon Law which approved circumstances for giving the communion wafer to non-Catholics (Bill Clinton himself took advantage of this allowance) and adding "psychic anomaly" to the grounds for the already burgeoning market in marriage annulments.

These are just a sampling from the seemingly endless litany of scandals under John Paul II, truly "a man of the world" – the modernist ideal of a pope!