[Mrs. Don-o]

I find meaningful --- and moreso as the years go on --- Pope Paul VI's repeated statement, "We are the ministers of the Design of Life, not its masters."

Five hundred years from now ---- if the human race has not erased itself line by line and gene by gene, has not replaced itself with some race of Orcs, half-chimp and half-machine --- people will way that the turning point in our preservation as a species was the publication of Humanae Vitae in 1968.

Paul VI was thought a weak, Hamlet-like, vacillating pope. But he was a prophet: for those who have ears to hear.

[Tax-chick]

But he was a prophet: for those who have ears to hear.Absolutely. Everything he wrote has turned out to be 100% correct ... or even more than that. All one's old dystopian predictions have fallen short of today's reality.