The response to Vatican II and the changes the council implemented divided the laity. Although Vatican II promoted an inclusive society that aimed for secularism there was still a decrease in the number of priests and religious people following Vatican II. Many people found it hard to acknowledge the changes the council implemented and the validity of these changes. Even despite the promises of the second Vatican council to bring up to date the church in the modern world Pope Pius VI still published his encyclical Casti Connbii which stated that “Any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offense against God and of nature, and those who indulge
