The idea indeed was well before St. JPII, you are correct. His merit lies in the way he verbalized and communicated these eternal principles for our time. His greatness rested on that ability also.
~Theo
“His merit lies in the way he verbalized and communicated these eternal principles for our time. His greatness rested on that ability also.”
I have wondered for decades why he couldn’t have communicated—and enforced—what is perhaps the most pressing eternal principle of our time:
NO HOMOS.
Not in the seminaries, not in the schools, not in the monasteries and convents.
What would the Church look like today if he had done that?