The Catholic Church has never believed in a literal translation of the Bible.
Pish-tosh. One Cardinal's personal opinion is not an official teaching of the Catholic Church, any more than my personal opinion is.
The MSM is cranking up these stories practically weekly, for the specific purpose of creating confusion ... just as they publicise every goofball who wants to talk about how "Christian" homosexuality is.
Sorry, as a Catholic, I was never taught that evolution didn't occur.
Genesis was taught as metaphor. Something happened to God's creation through man's fall, but just what, we don't know.
The fact remains that man fell.
This isn't exactly news. There have been a couple of threads on it already.
They see the need to expand...in mind and in body...for soul cleansing and also for profit. Since there is hardly any land to conquer and people to convert forcefully, why not * give in * ,somewhat, to new ideas...they have a business to run.
it's not like we have the original copy of the Bible on in our midths...times change, so do people.
I hate to break it to you, but their already is a tremendous rift between Catholics and evangelicals. Jesus used metaphor and parable to make points in the sciptures, and the book of Genesis is no different. Do you really believe the world was repopulated by the two animals that survived on the ark? That is genetically impossible and that fact can be proven. One cannot continue a species from just a single pair. Also, how did the giant earthworm from the Australian subcontinent make it all the way to Noah's boat and back again. It can't swim. Perhaps it was carried by the African swallow?
Evangelicals and Catholics share many moral and theological beliefs, a tremendous respect for life being one of them. There are also a great many differences. Some of the seminal research on Cepheid Variable stars was done at a Catholic observatory by monks. This data provided additional support for the expanding universe theory "big bang". If I recall, Pope John Paul the Great met with Stephen Hawking and did not find the big bang theory in contradiction to church teachings.
Atheistic scientists like to use Darwin to disprove Genesis.
Evangelicals like to use Genesis to disprove Darwin.
Catholics do not interpret Genesis literally, are not involved in this stupid fight and thus think both groups are nuts.
On the contrary, I think it is a rift between the whacked out ID/Creationists, whose purpose it is to destroy the Conservative Movement, and normal people.
jodiluvshoes
Since Nov 10, 2005
BTW, welcome to FR!
The modern Church is very open to scientific discoveries. They got a black eye with the whole Galileo affair and don't want to look like fools again.
FLASH!!!! BELIEF OR NON-BELIEF IN A LITERAL TRANSLATION OF GENESIS HAS ZERO RELEVANCE TO WHETHER YOUR NAME IS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE!!!!!
That is all.
I can't believe anyone would believe the Adam and Eve story....
The whole ID issue is too silly for words. Get off it already! And please, when commenting on Catholic teaching, know the facts.
Boy, I'll bet Satan really is enjoying this discussion. People attacking others for things that happened 500 years ago; people of both faiths presuming to understand the beliefs and feelings of the others; Christians judging other Christians; accusations, hostility, anger. Just like the Reformation. Yep, he's no doubt glad that the old hatreds are still there, distracting Catholic and Protestant believers alike from fighting their common enemy.
Catholics have never beleived in the literal interpatation of the Old Testament. Evolution is thought to be the act of God expressing His will though the natural forces He created. Thus His Will Be Done any way He wants.
Oui Vey!
Agreed.
b'shem Y'shua
The Catholic Church NEVER disavowed evolution!!! Or stated that it is in conflict with the faith.... there are a lot of folks who are very very ignorant of the Catholic Church if they find this a shock. Since at least the 1950s if not before they have stated that it is NOT in conflict with the faith, and that it deserved further study.
The Catholic Church is not evangelical.. it does not teach that the bible is 100% literal, and never has. In fact, Saint Thomas Aquinas, in Summa Theologica published way way back in the 1200's, stated that evolution (change) in all things is one of the observable ways we can know God exists, because for any change to happen, something else must have changed first....... and for that previous thing to change, must have been acted on by something else... etc etc... which takes you back to the original creator which is God.
Change in all things, has been accepted as part of evidence of God's existence in Catholic Faith, since at least the 1200's. The notion that evolution conflicts with Catholicism is nonsense, and not accurate to the church's stand at all. Only ignorant Catholics, or evangelicals who aren't familiar with Catholicism are "shocked" to find out that the Church does not find evolution at conflict with the faith.