The truly disgusting pedophilia scandal, and the church's reaction to it, has not had any significant impact on the number of Catholics. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
The only actual miracle attributable to JP2 was that he was able to so blithely and completely ignore the International RC Pederasty Ring and resultant Pedophilia Scandal / Coverup for his whole tenure... even though it started way, way before him and continues still to this very minute. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)