Teilhard de Chardin: Arch-Heretic by Monsignor Vincent Foy

Pope Pius XII called the writings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin “a cesspool of errors.” The Church’s condemnation of his writings remains in force.

Unfortunately, in The Catholic Register of Toronto for Feb. 2, 2013, there is a front full-page picture of de Chardin with the inscription “Studying the origins of the universe – The brilliance and spirituality of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin brought to life on stage.”  On page ten is an article by Michael Swan with a favorable review of a play “The De Chardin Project” by actor and writer Adam Seybold, who belongs to “a liberal Protestant Church.”  We are misinformed that de Chardin was a brilliant thinker who articulated the first positive Christian response to evolutionary theory.  We are further told that today his thoughts on cosmology and evolution form that basis of contemporary [so-called] “Catholic” theologies of the environment.  (more...)

Teilhard de Chardin: Arch-Heretic by Monsignor Vincent Foy