“Many questions of the utmost importance,” said the bishop who was having tea with us in a flat lent to us in Rome by a kind friend, “have been discussed by this Council but when a friend of mine, Father X, returned for a week to London, the only question he was asked was ‘Will the Council change Catholic teaching on birth control?’ ”
During the weeks I spent in Rome the unofficial comments by various ecclesiastics were often more revealing than the official pronouncements. I recorded these every day before retiring. The reader will not, of course, expect me to name my informants.
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