Pope John Paul II's Rule for Spouses
From the Catholic News Service : Italian newspaper, Il Messagero , has published a newly rediscovered booklet written by then Cardinal Karol Wojtyla in 1968 to help couples implement Pope Paul VI's encyclical Humanae Vitae . The text, entitled "Rule for Spouses," was never made public outside the Archdiocese of Krakow, but was recently discovered by a student from the John Paul II Institute for Life and Family in Rome, Catholic News Agency reports. The booklet will be officially presented on April 24, but on Thursday Il Messagero published a full version in Italian, as well as Wojtyla's introduction to the Rule on its website (in Italian). In his introduction, Wojtyla wrote that "the present Rule sprouts from a series of pastoral experiences with some married couples and, at the same time, from the marriage experience of couples themselves." The Rule, he wrote, "is born simultaneously with the publication of the encyclical Humanae Vitae ,