Thank you, you are correct - agnostic Jew with a qualification:"I am not, personally, a believer or a religious man in any sense of institutional commitment or practice. But I have enormous respect for religion," The "institutional commitment" sounds like he turned away from the organized or dogmatic aspects of religion but kept his respect for the spiritual side. I know a few 'agnostics' like that - like the religion but not the church.
Interesting point in this article:
At lunch, the priests called me over to their table to pose a problem that had been troubling them. What, they wanted to know, was going on in America with all this talk about "scientific creationism"? One asked me: "Is evolution really in some kind of trouble. and if so, what could such trouble be? I have always been taught that no doctrinal conflict exists between evolution and Catholic faith, and the evidence for evolution seems both entirely satisfactory and utterly overwhelming."
Question - Are Jesuit priest scientists "true" Christians? Can a "true" Christian hold that evolution is "both true and entirely compatible with Christian belief"?
True, so far; since the pope has embraced the concept: but faiths OTHER than the Roman Catholic Church DO have a problem with it.
You must be a newbie to these threads. At least half a dozen FReepers fell in the recent Catholic wars. Apparantely for some the answer is no. There have even been whole threads devoted to denouncing all but the select few true believers.
I personally believe these were started by DU disrupters.
I think the Pope speaks for Jesuits also when he says that Christianity and evolution are compatible. I'm not a Jesuit, but I find that my faith as a Christian is not in conflict with evolutionary biology.