sentences:  His successor, Godfried Danneels, described him as an excellent weather-forecaster who knew from which direction the wind was blowing in the Church, and an experienced strategist who realized that he could not change the wind's direction but could set the sails to suit it.Pope John Paul II himself later attested that "Cardinal Suenens had played a decisive part in the Council".In May 1969, an interview he gave to the French Catholic magazine "Informations Catholiques Internationales" in which he offered a passionate critique of the Roman Curia.