What if Cardinal Martini was right? One of the most revered church leaders of his generation, who almost beat Pope Francis as the first Jesuit on the throne of Peter, said in an interview published in German in 2008 that Pope Paul VI was guilty of dishonesty when he issued his encyclical Humanae Vitae in 1968. Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, Archbishop of Milan from 1979 to 2002, died in retirement last year, and the interview in question was republished in English in 2012 under the title Night Conversations with Cardinal Martini (Paulist Press).The cardinal said Pope Paul had explained to his friends his state of mind when preparing the encyclical: “One is forbidden to lie and yet sometimes it cannot be avoided; perhaps one must conceal the truth or cannot prevent a necessary lie fro