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Pope Pius XII
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“All men are brothered in Jesus Christ.”
Pope Pius XII (1876–1958) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement (27 May 1946), as quoted in America, Vol. 100 (1958) by America Press, p. 121
“Perhaps the greatest sin in the world today is that men have begun to lose the sense of sin.”
Pope Pius XII (1876–1958) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Radio Message of His Holiness Pius XII to Participants in the National Catechetical Congress of the United States in Boston, from Castel Gandolfo on Saturday, 26 October 1946
“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.”
Pope Pius XII (1876–1958) first seen 1956 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement (7 September 1956), as quoted in America, Vol. 100 (1958) by America Press, p. 121
“True science discovers God in an ever-increasing degree — as though God were waiting behind every door opened by science.”
Pope Pius XII (1876–1958) first seen 1951 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: address to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, 22 November 1951
“Caution must be used when there is rather question of hypotheses, having some sort of scientific foundation, in which the doctrine contained in Sacred Scripture or in Tradition is involved. If such conjectural opinions are directly or indirectly opposed to the doctrine revealed by God, then the demand that they be recognized can in no way be admitted.”
Pope Pius XII (1876–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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. Therefore, there is no man, no human authority, no science, no "indication" at all—whether it be medical, eugenic, social, economic, or moral—that may offer or give a valid judicial title for a direct deliberate disposal of an innocent human life, that is, a disposal which aims at its destruction, whether as an end in itself or as a means to achieve the end, perhaps in no way at all illicit. Thus, for example, to save the life of the mother is a very noble act; but the direct killing of the child as a means to such an end is illicit. 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. Therefore, when this practice was initiated, the Church expressly declared that it was against the natural law and the divine positive law, and consequently that it was unlawful to kill, even by order of the public authorities, those who were innocent, even if on account of some physical or mental defect, they were useless to the State and a burden upon it. 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. We have no need to teach you in detail the meaning and the gravity, in your profession, of this fundamental law. But never forget this: there rises above every human law and above every "indication" the faultless law of God.”
Pope Pius XII (1876–1958) first seen 1951 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Allocution to Midwives on the Nature of Their Profession, October 29, 1951. [http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Pius12/P12midwives.htm