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Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid ... research and discussions ... with regard to the doctrine of evolution.

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Pope Pius XII
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: March 2
Died: 1958
Died: October 9
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The Eternal City
Eugenio Marìa Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli
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God has no intention of setting a limit to the efforts of man to conquer space.
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These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by Christian reason and morals.
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Henceforth it will be the task of this Sacred Congregation not only to examine carefully the books denounced to it, to prohibit them if necessary, and to grant permission for reading forbidden books, but also to supervise, ex officio, books that are being published, and to pass sentence on such as deserve to be prohibited.
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By divine mandate the interpreter and guardian of the Scriptures, and the depository of Sacred Tradition living within her, the Church alone is the entrance to salvation: She alone, by herself, and under the protection and guidance of the Holy Spirit, is the source of truth.
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True science discovers God in an ever-increasing degree — as though God were waiting behind every door opened by science.
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True Christianity today is not different from primitive Christianity ... She remains what she has been since her foundation: always the same.
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A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted. She will be tempted to believe that man has become God. In our churches, Christians will search in vain for the red lamp where God awaits them. Like Mary Magdalene, weeping before the empty tomb, they will ask, ‘Where have they taken Him?’
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Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being. It forces him to face again the fundamental questions of his fate, of his attitude toward God and fellow man, of his individual and collective responsibility and of the sense of his pilgrimage on earth.
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Let no Christian therefore, whether philosopher or theologian, embrace eagerly and lightly whatever novelty happens to be thought up from day to day, but rather let him weigh it with painstaking care and a balanced judgment, lest he lose or corrupt the truth he already has, with grave danger and damage to his faith.
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The more pure and chaste is a soul, the more it hungers for this Bread [Jesus in the Eucharist], from which it derives strength to resist all temptations to sins of impurity, and by which it is more intimately united with the Divine Spouse 'He who eats My Flesh and drinks My Blood, abides in Me and I in him'
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The key to seeing why there should be a Eucharistic worship distinct from the Mass is that the Eucharist is Jesus Christ. No less than His contemporaries in Palestine adored and implored Him for the favors they needed, so we should praise, thank Him, and implore Him for what we need.
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That which does not correspond to the truth or to the moral norm possesses, objectively, no right either to existence or to propagation or to action.
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[A] high minded gallantry in defense of the foundations of Christian culture.
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God did not create a human family made up of segregated, dissociated, mutually independent members. No he would have them all united by the bond of total love of Him and consequent self-dedication to assisting each other to maintain that bond intact.
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Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being.
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The good of our soul is more important than that of our body and we have to prefer the spiritual welfare of our neighbor to our bodily comforts. . . If a certain kind of dress constitutes a grave and proximate occasion of sin, and endangers the salvation of your soul and others, it is your duty to give it up.
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To separate tabernacle from altar is to separate two things which by their origin and nature should remain united.
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To desire grace without recourse to the Virgin Mother is to desire to fly without wings.
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You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war.
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How many girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They certainly would blush if they could guess the impression they make and the feelings they evoke in those who see them.
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