From GM Watch Weekly Watch [GM means "genetic modification," one term for genetic engineering.]

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+ POPE CONDEMNS GENETIC MANIPULATION
The Pope delivered a blistering attack on the "satanic" mores of modern society on 14 April (Good Friday), warning against an "inane apologia of evil" that is in danger of destroying humanity.

In a series of Good Friday meditations that he led in Rome, the Pope said that society is in the grip of a kind of "anti-Genesis". Particular condemnation was reserved for scientific advances in the field of genetic manipulation. Warning against the move to "modify the very grammar of life as planned and willed by God", the Pope lead prayers against "insane, risky and dangerous" ventures in attempting "to take God's place without being God".
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