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Thing is, the Catholic Church, before the creation of national bishops’ conferences by Paul VI, WAS very decentralized. The local bishop answered to no one in Washington, and communication with Rome was infrequent, and in Latin! So letters were not only infrequent, but short!

Paul VI did that?!? Man, outside of Humanae Vitae, everything that well-intentioned man did was a disaster.

I can't think of anything he did that didn't blow up in his face. And despite the fact that he spoke the truth in Humanae Vitae, everything he did BEFORE and AFTER ensured that it would be a dead letter. He allowed speculation to run rampant for about five years by appointing a "commission" to "discuss" contraception. During that time, tens of thousands of priests told millions of Catholics to go ahead and use The Pill. So millions were on The Pill the day HV was published. After, Paul VI allowed Cardinal John Wright, a notorious homosexual, to cut Cardinal Patrick O'Boyle, the only American bishop to uphold HV, off at the knees. Wright's secretary was Fr. Donald Wuerl, another notorious homosexual, who is now the unworthy successor of Patrick O'Boyle as Archbishop of Washington. Wuerl punishes priests who won't give Communion to out lesbians or pro-abortion politicians.

So disastrous was everything he did, that there are many who are certain that his fountain pen simply refused to write what he wanted to write. The Holy Spirit simply took it over.

Beats getting struck dead the night before a heretical encyclical is signed.