User blog comment:Spartian300/media biasing on a massive scale..../@comment-4656717-20141102041844

The ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) was less biased than other outlets, in its online edition it wrote that

"However, more recently it [the church] has sought to shed its image as an enemy of science and Pope Francis' comments largely echoed statements from his predecessors.

Pope Pius XII described evolution as a valid scientific approach to the development of humans in 1950 and Pope John Paul reiterated that in 1996."