Yes, Catholics may accept evolution, though never as a process without God. Since 1950 the Church has allowed them to hold that the human body developed from earlier forms of life, with two limits: God creates each human soul directly, and human history began with a real first sin committed by humanity’s first parents. Genesis holds both halves of that answer in one verse: “the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils…

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