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The Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions, on the part of men experienced in both fields, take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter.

— Pope Pius XII

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Perhaps the greatest sin in the world today is that men have begun to lose the sense of sin.

True science discovers God in an ever-increasing degree — as though God were waiting behind every door opened by science.

Besides, every human being, even the child in the womb, has the right to life directly from God and not from his parents, not from any society or human authority.

The life of an innocent person is sacrosanct, and any direct attempt or aggression against it is a violation of one of the fundamental laws without which secure human society is impossible.

The direct destruction of so-called "useless lives," already born or still in the womb, practiced extensively a few years ago, can in no wise be justified.

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