the process for the canonization of JPII is already far advanced. In fact, many believe that he will ultimately also have the honorific of "the great" In 2000 years this has only been done a couple of times.
Regarding laying the blame for the "priest abuse scandal" on JPII that is I assume stated in ignorance rather than stupidity. The local bishop is the head of the Church. Despite popular vilification and media representations, a Pope does not just spout out law and other whims and everyone is supposed to fall in line. The Pope is likewise "bishop of Rome" and is among brothers in such regard. It is both politically and ecclesiastically inappropriate for the pope to act heavy handed (not to mention logistically impossible) in addressing the failures of bishops and national conferences and it is done only reluctantly and rarely, for just about any issue. The Pope is more specifically the leader among brothers in matters of doctrine and dogma not governance. But even here it is a very rare thing for the Pope to act heavy handed or speak "ex cathedra." This likewise only happens rarely in the 2000+ year history of the Church.
The bishop at the head of any given diocese in the world, is the head of their local church. These bishops by tradition, try to act in union with the other bishops of the world (in theory if not practice) but more specifically in line with their regional conference such as in the U.S. the USCCB. For the most part the norms of governance as well as rubric and liturgy (like whether to kneel or stand at certain times of the mass) are set here. The current process of dealing with allegations against priests was dictated (in the U.S.) by the USCCB, not by the Pope. Even here (national conferences), the individual bishops essentially agree only in spirit, to follow in line with their Conference, as opposed to there being some sort of Catholic law (or Canon Law) in place. This process of dealing with pedophiles, is like you said very, very sad. The former process (or lack thereof) was much worse but the existing process is basically that any priest at any time is automatically assumed to be guilty and taken out of commission automatically if an allegation comes up. In addition to that, the priest must be treated like a criminal and the local secular authorities must be contacted immediately when an accusation is made. Priests actually have a significantly lower incidence of pedophilia than other occupations such as for example, public school teachers, but for the most part any allegation, much less actual incidents and a priest is automatically national news. This begs the question why, and how it feeds from and into the prejudices and political agendas but regardless being a priest is about the hardest job in the world and largely because blowhards spout on about pedophile priests when almost all of them (priests) are decent people living under this black cloud while likewise dealing with all of the yoohas in their parish and other challenges.
This issue hit very close to home and I am by no means, some blind apologist. But recently I also witnessed a priest get this new treatment and it also is very hard to stomach. Especially in a case like this where the allegations seem very dubious and the priest can't even defend himself because the accuser (or more accurately alleged accuser) is dead with the actual accusation being made by family members after his death and the alleged incident occurred some 40 years ago (no other accusations made in those 40 years). Obviously no criminal case could even be attempted but as far as his priesthood, that he has devoted decades to in the local diocese and as a military chaplain in the Middle East and elsewhere, it is pretty much over and there is pretty much nothing he can do about it. This is a completely separate issue of what to do with an actual pedophile and I would never suggest otherwise or try to defend such a person. But that gray area between suspicion, accusation and proof is now very problematic. There is no easy answer but certainly ignorant commentators and sentiments like 'it's the Pope's fault' and "celibacy makes priests pedophiles" and any other mob mentality don't help.
