Remembering Montini

Remembering Montini by MSW.  MGB: What I find impressive is his vision in the Upper Room, which he never shared publicly.  I would love to know what he saw.  He had the right idea about the Mass, but he was a bit ahead of his time.  Allowing culturally specific translations without first establishing linguistic patriarchies was likely a mistake.  It would have been better to go slow and simply adopt the current missal translations as the vernacular and THEN go with revisions once everyone saw how clunky the original Latin was (and is).  His actions invited the liturgical counter-revolution recently completed by Pope Benedict after being set in motion by John Paul II.  While Humanae Vitae might have something to say about tinkering with the genetic code, its sexual teaching, while an improvement on what was before, is still an insult to married Catholics and his views on embryology lack any understanding of embryology.  Life cannot really be said to begin until gastrulation. Until then, development is accomplished through the maternal life force carried over from prior to conception.  As science indicates it cannot be otherwise, then the Church must admit its error.  Simply punting on the question of ensoulment, which is what Evangelicum Vitae does, is not acceptable either.