The following is abstracted from "What's New" from the APS. Dated 25 Oct
96.
Folliwng the course set in his 1992 exoneration of Galileo, John Paul
acknowledged yesterday that evolution is "more than just a theory." He
cited "new Knowledge" as the basis for elevating evolution from the
"serious Hypothesis" status Pius XII gave it in 1950. Alas, he didn't
say what new knowledge he had in mind...