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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 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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Above all, the state of grace is absolutely necessary at the moment of death without it, salvation and supernatural happiness the beatific vision of God - are impossible.
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To desire grace without recourse to the Virgin Mother is to desire to fly without wings.
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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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For centuries, Jews have been unjustly treated and despised. It is time they were treated with justice and humanity. God wills it and the Church wills it. St. Paul tells us that the Jews are our brothers. They should also be welcomed as friends.
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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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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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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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God has no intention of setting a limit to the efforts of man to conquer space.
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If a worker is deprived of hope to acquire some personal property, what other natural stimulus can be offered him that will inspire him to hard work, labor, saving and sobriety today, when so many nations and men have lost everything and all they have left is their capacity for work?
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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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Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being.
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Wine is a splendid thing in and of itself, but it is nonetheless proper to examine the high nutritional and hygienic values of wine from a scientific point of view. We are convinced that scientists will thus perform a service to mankind, since at the same time they will help determine the measure beyond which its use is a misuse for all creation.
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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] high minded gallantry in defense of the foundations of Christian culture.
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You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war.
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When she was thrown into the air by a savage bull in the amphitheatre at Carthage, her first thought and action when she fell to the ground was to rearrange her dress to cover her thigh, because she was more concerned for modesty than pain.
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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 live without risk is to risk not living.
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