text: Go deeper by asking a more substantial question:  Why do assume that the very points and motives that the pope saw fomenting in secular culture (and in some prelates minds) weren't already anticipated and captured and embedded into the doctrine to which Pope Paul vi was serving and defending and preserving. 
  
  He trusted the decisions of 2000s years of popes.  
  
  Pope's and their decisions serve Tradition, not their desires, certainly not the shifty and shifting trends of society (today abortion is illegal, tomorrow is incented!). 
  
  I realize this is sort of 'humiliating' (setting aside trends and whims of the secular world and instead trusting the past) to the secular mind, so happy are they to place their hopes in this or that dear new leader...a president here, a pope there.
  
  Pope Paul instead served Tradition by further deepening the Church's understanding about the nature of man and woman and family life, and how all are designed to serve not self, but God. 
  
  Go much deeper here.