Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid ... research and discussions ... with regard to the doctrine of evolution.
Pope Pius XIIThe most insidious of sophisms are usually repeated to justify immodesty and seem to be the same everywhere.
Pope Pius XIIA 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, โWhere have they taken Him?โ
Pope Pius XIITrue Christianity today is not different from primitive Christianity ... She remains what she has been since her foundation: always the same.
Pope Pius XIIBut how can you know anything of the impression made on others? Who can assure you that others do not draw therefrom incentives to evil? You do not know the depths of human frailty. . . Oh, how truly was it said that if some Christian women could only suspect the temptations and falls they cause in others with modes of dress and familiarity in behavior, which they unthinkingly consider as of no importance, they would be shocked by the responsibility which is theirs.
Pope Pius XII