"I for one find it much easier to sympathise with the Arnoldian gloom of Paul looking quietly at the ruin of the Church than with the glad-handing U2 world-tour optimism of St. John Paul II,"
— Pope Paul VI

January 1, 1970

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Matthew Walther, The Consoling Gloom of Paul VI, Catholic Herald, 18 October 2018