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    “The Church welcomes technological progress and receives it with love, for it is an indubitable fact that technological progress comes from God and, therefore, can and must lead to Him.”
    —Pius XII [Eugenio Pacelli] (1876–1958)

    “It is an error to believe that the Roman Pontiff can and ought to reconcile himself to, and agree with, progress, liberalism, and contemporary civilization.”
    —Pope Pius IX (1792–1878)

    “My curse on plays
    That have to be set up in fifty ways,
    On the day’s war with every knave and dolt,
    Theater business, management of men.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)