"I SUPPOSE WE NEED TO..."

You can tell The Boston Globe didn't want to write anything about the Pope, but knew they had to say something. Their editorial is confusing, incoherent and short. Half of it is about the Pope and Vatican II, in fact, three paragraphs of the eight total start with mentioning Vatican II,

"In keeping with the modernizing spirit of Vatican II..."

"Also in keeping with Vatican II..."

"While hewing to the decisions of Vatican II..."

The editorial reads like a junior high English assignment, not like a lead editorial in a major newspaper. Yet, even as they muddle through a short editorial devoid of a lot of facts, they still manage to get things wrong:

"Although John Paul named women to advisory committees, they never gained significant power. His attitude toward them remained rooted in the past. His approach to sexuality changed little from his days as a bishop, when he rejected birth control within marriage except for periodic abstinence."

Perhaps if the editors had a modicum of knowledge about the Church, they would see that Pope Paul VI reinforced idea that contraception went against the will of the Lord in his BEAUTIFUL Humanae Vitae, it wasn't a random decision by Pope John Paul II. Of course, that might require at least some of them to be practicing Catholics, way too much to ask for from the editors of a liberal paper in Boston, Massachusetts.