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

— Pope Pius XII

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quoted in Time, 3 December 1951 | quoted by Dan Brown, Angels and Demons, page 44

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

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.

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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