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But you have at least 2500 years of evidence fighting against you, so bring some counter-evidence first...unlike pius.

Pope Pius XII acknowledged evolution as compatible with Christianity in 1950, though he did not embrace it.

A tiny number of these claim the vacancy actually goes back to the death of Pope Pius X in 1914.

This also lists odds from the bookmaker Paddy Power, giving Leo 3-to-1, Peter 2-to-1, Gregory 6-to-1, Pius 8-to-1.

This is not to say Pius is wrong, just to add a note of caution, be skeptical of the XP hype machine.

Fortunately Kickstarter is not a store, so the Council of Trent [1] and Pius V should have no problem with offering indulgences as perks.

And Stephen Hawking has a Pius XI gold medal for science.

With respect to 3), the Catholic Church has been okay with evolution for a long time (this was made official by Pius XII in 1950).

Pope John Paul II further strengthened that substantially in the 90's, by reaffirming Pius XII's statement and adding that scientific discoveries in later years have substantially strengthened the theory.

I believe it was Pope Pius IV who did something similar to Rome retroactively imposing an urban structure onto the city by creating main avenues, squares and intersections.

His arguments with Pope Pius XII over Pius' use of Georges' cosmology to try and provide justification for Catholic theology seem to be astute, especially his point that it is a very bad idea to tie your faith to a scientific theory that may yet be disproved, especially when you are the leader of that faith.

Parody or not, there are sedevacantists in the world: > Sedevacantism is the position, held by a minority of Traditionalist Catholics,^[1]^[2] that the present occupant of the papal see is not truly pope and that, for lack of a valid pope, the see has been vacant since the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958.

In 1937, Pope Pius XI published a kind of "review" of the ideas in Mein Kampf and the actions of the Nazi Party.

Here is what Pope Pius XII had to say in the middle of the 20th Century: "Even when it is a question of the execution of a condemned man, the State does not dispose of the individual's right to life.

Pope Pius XII made it quite clear in 1950 that evolution is compatible with catholic doctrine, with certain proviso (such as that they don't accept a material basis for the human soul, and the idea that God is "guiding" evolution).