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Pope John Paul II (1920-2005)
By: Benjamin Garcia, Katherine Brind'Amour
| Published: Nov 11, 2007
Pope John Paul II's views on abortion and embryology have been very influential to the Roman Catholic Church. He strictly forbade abortion and other…
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Pope Paul VI (1897-1978)
By: Benjamin Garcia, Katherine Brind'Amour
| Published: Nov 11, 2007
Pope Paul VI, born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini, has been crucial to the clarification of Roman Catholic views on embryos and…
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Mother Teresa (1910-1997)
By: Katherine Brind'Amour
| Published: Nov 11, 2007
Mother Teresa, a Roman Catholic nun known for her charitable work and attention to the poor, was born 26 August 1910. The youngest child of Albanian…
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Evangelium Vitae (1995), by Pope John Paul II
By: Katherine Brind'Amour, Benjamin Garcia
| Published: Nov 11, 2007
The encyclical entitled "Evangelium Vitae," meaning "The Gospel of Life," was promulgated on 25 March 1995 by Pope John Paul II in Rome, Italy. The…
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St. Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-1274)
By: Katherine Brind'Amour
| Published: Nov 11, 2007
Widely known as a key contributor to the Roman Catholic Church's body of doctrine, St. Thomas Aquinas also published an opinion on the moral status…
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Pope Sixtus V (1520-1590)
By: Katherine Brind'Amour
| Published: Nov 11, 2007
Known for dropping a long-held distinction in the Catholic Church between the animated and unanimated fetus, Felice Peretti was born in Grottamare,…
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Pope Pius XI (1857-1939)
By: Katherine Brind'Amour
| Published: Nov 11, 2007
Pope Pius XI, born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, was born to the wealthy owner of a silk factory on 31 May 1857 in Desio, Italy. He was ordained to…
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Pope Innocent XI (1611-1689)
By: Benjamin Garcia, Katherine Brind'Amour
| Published: Nov 11, 2007
Pope Innocent XI, born Benedetto Odescalchi, made considerable contributions to the Roman Catholic approach to embryology by condemning several…
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"Effraenatam" (1588), by Pope Sixtus V
By: Katherine Brind'Amour
| Published: Nov 11, 2007
"Effraenatam," the brain-child of Pope Sixtus V, was released as a papal bull in the year 1588. Papal bulls are formal declarations issued by the…
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Roman Catholic Church Quickening
By: Katherine Brind'Amour
| Published: Nov 11, 2007
Although the concept of quickening was not developed initially by the Roman Catholic Church, much of their histories are intertwined. Quickening, the…
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