text: People were NOT permitted to do EVEN what WAS authorized in Vatican II.
  
  JP II micromanaged Episcopal Conferences, reducing the bishops to the status of merely being executors of the will of the Vatican rather than as genuine collaborators with the bishops of Rome.
  
  Bishops [including the popes]  were to work with theologians {International Theological Commission]----but the Vatican of JP II and Benedict favored using the "court theologians"---often members of the Curia.
  
  The Laity had already been defined as the People of God.  Yet, JP II and Benedict wanted to keep the laity away from any decisions concerning the church, as if the laity were not baptized.  Lay Catholics are baptized and anointed as priest, prophet and king.  And that anointing is not a 'lesser' anointing than that of ordained priests.
  
  JP II wrote his own book defining HIS understanding of Vatican II.  It was entitled THE IMPLEMENTATION OF VATICAN II in 1979.  It looked nothing like the church described by VATICAN II