Evolution continues:
‘The leader of the Bolshevik ʀɛʋօʟutιօn, Vladimir Lenin had been born into a Christian home but lost his faith as a teenager and embraced evolutionary materialism. On his desk sat a sculpture of a chimpanzee sitting on a pile of books, including Darwin’s Origin of Species, contemplating a human skull. Lenin coolly sat in the presence of that sculpture, overseeing the murders of millions of innocent people, all in the name of evolutionary progress. Lenin’s successor as communist dictator of the Soviet Union, Josef Stalin, also lost his faith in God as a seminarian after reading Darwin’s evolution and Lyell’s uniformitarianism. He oversaw the murder of more than twenty million people, all in the name of evolutionary progress. When ƈσmmυɳιsm then spread to ƈhıną, Mao Tse Tung’s forces held compulsory seminars in every town they captured, not in the teachings of Marx, Lenin, or Mao, but in evolutionism, because, in the words of Passionist missionary bishop Cuthbert O’Gara, evolutionary theory could be used to destroy people’s faith in God, in the soul, and in the after-life, and ƈσmmυɳιsm could then take root in the minds of the people. The evolutionary hypothesis provided a rationale for communist movements all over the world. It also provided a pseudo-scientific rationale for the eugenics movement in the United States, Germany and elsewhere. Evolutionary theory was used to justify genocide in the German colony of Namibia in the early twentieth century and to justify the ideology of the nαzι party which took power in Germany in 1933… According to Adolf Hitler, the purpose of the nαzι Party was to advance evolution.’ --- Kolbe Center report 17/7/2017.
In the numerous papal speeches to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, no pope ever officially said a bad word against evolution theories. Indeed quite the opposite. In 1950 Pope Pius XII wrote in his encyclical Humani Generis the following:
‘36. For these reasons the Teaching Authority of 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 - for the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immєdιαtely created by God…..’--- H. G.
On October 22, 1996, Pope John Paul II, reflecting on Pius XII’s ‘observation’ on evolution in Humani Generis said:
‘Today, almost half a century after the publication of the Encyclical, new knowledge has led to the recognition of more than one hypothesis in the theory of evolution. It is indeed remarkable that this theory has been progressively accepted by researchers, following a series of discoveries in various fields of knowledge. The convergence, neither sought nor fabricated, of the results of work that was conducted independently is in itself a significant argument in favour of this theory.'
Note there is never as mention of Eve in their evolution beliefs. Where does Eve fit in with evolution of Adam's body from pre-existing matter?
JP2 actually at one point called it "more than a theory".
This was one of the many harmful things done by Pius XII ... adding to his condoning of NFP (leading to this Catholic Birth Control phenomenon), his experimentations with the Liturgy, and his early Ecuмenical gatherings. And, oh yes, let us not forget that he appointed, during his lengthy reign, nearly every bishop that would eventually bring us the glories of Vatican II. Heck, even Roncalli threw Bugnini out of the Vatican.
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