Reply #102: You are obviously unaware of the facts

[olegramps]

With all due respect, you are solely unaware of the facts regarding John Paul II. Firstly, he was the major author of the encyclical Humane Vitae that rejected the Birth Control Commission appointed by John XIII. He had been appointed a member to the commission but boycotted it when it took the final vote in which they voted to rescind the church's condemnation of contraception. In this regard he even lied about both his reason for not attending and his major input regarding the document. He said that he and his staff had a little input, but his secretary gushing over the fact that they had contributed the majority of the text bragged about their influence on Paul VI to reject the commission's recommendation because the papacy's authority would be undermined. I will just add in closing that he recognized Opus Dei, a secret cult of radical extremists that engaged in self torture. It is too bad that far too many Catholic know so little about John XXIII and his attempt to bring the church into the 20th century and how Paul VI and John Paul II worked to overthrow his efforts.