And Pope John Paul II came out several years ago and said, formally, that the theory of evolution is *not* in contradiction with Christianity. Mattistotle, you should do your research before you say what does or does not mesh with Catholicism. There are no recent scientific discoveries the Catholic church has disparaged or denied. You must be thinking back to Galileo
And good point on stem cell research. I am so tired of the media portraying Catholics as being against stem cell research. They are for it. As mentioned, the ONLY type of stem cell research they are against is fetal stem cells, for the obvious reason that a human life begins at conception (even without the legal right to continue living, it *is* human and it *is* alive), and they don't believe one human being should mess with God's plan for another.