The modernization process that John XXIII initiated was in line with the ebullience of the early 1960’s. John Paul II viewed his long tenure, from 1978 to 2005, as a course correction to the moral license and sexual experimentation of that decade.
若望二十三世发动的现代化过程与躁动的20世纪60年代初相辅相成。若望·保禄二世把他在位的1978—2005年视为对那个十年的道德放纵和性自由的航向纠正过程。方济各将他的教皇生涯定位为这一辩证对立的调和过程。