Posted on 02/03/2005 5:01:57 PM PST by Land of the Irish
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Catholic educators need better teaching programs about evolution "to correct the anti-evolution biases that Catholics pick up" from the general society, according to a U.S. bishops' official involved in dialogue with scientists for 20 years.
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Ping
It's good to know that he comprehends their intellectual life. I wonder if he had some sort of private revelation or if he has some scientific evidence unavailable to everyone else.
Gaudium et Spes §18Although the mystery of death utterly beggars the imagination, the Church has been taught by divine revelation and firmly teaches that man has been created by God for a blissful purpose beyond the reach of earthly misery. In addition, that bodily death from which man would have been immune had he not sinned(14) will be vanquished, according to the Christian faith, when man who was ruined by his own doing is restored to wholeness by an almighty and merciful Saviour.
Yep. Just like them... The sad thing is that this bishop is probably a big supporter of "Vatican II".
Thankfully the church is not making the mistakes of the past - Denying the earth was round and then standing steadfastly to the principle that the sun went around the earth. I'm sure there are other examples too, can't think of any other just now though
by John F. McCarthy
Joseph Gehringer, in his critical review of Father Anthony Zimmerman's recent book, Original Sin: Where Doctrine Meets Science (Vantage Press: New York, 1990), gives a graphic illustration of how more and more tradition-minded Catholic thinkers and publications are caving in to unabashed evolutionary thinking. The movement to accommodate traditional Catholic doctrine, as well as the traditional interpretation of the accounts in Sacred Scripture, to the supposed "fact" of the evolution of man from primitive matter by a relentless process of spontaneous transformations of species over an enormous period of time has become so widespread in Catholic intellectual circles that it has now assumed the appearance of a "mainstream" point of view. The assumed "fact" of biological evolution, as pictured in contemporary biological theories, has moved in our time from a far-out to a central theological position and is now threatening to become a supposition of the updated "teaching of the Church," with all the inevitable consequences of such a development, not only as regards the two-thousand-year-old teaching of the Church on such issues as Original Sin, but also as regards the very credibility of Church teaching as such. At this moment in the historic assault of modern secular humanism upon Catholic belief, we are witnessing to our dismay more and more heretofore "solid" defenders of Catholic tradition ceding to Darwinism and its progeny ground without which they cannot survive for long as orthodox thinkers...
Oh - he's not a bishop. Read too fast.
But he was the executive director of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Science and Human Values from 1984 to 2003.
Do you think any U.S. bishops or even Rome will correct him in his errors?
But seriously - no. At least he is protesting that his ideas are being contradicted: sermons and religious education materials "routinely describe Adam and Eve as if they were an essentially modern couple,". Among those "religious education materials", we can include the CCC:
374 The first man was not only created good, but was also established in friendship with his Creator and in harmony with himself and with the creation around him, in a state that would be surpassed only by the glory of the new creation in Christ.375 The Church, interpreting the symbolism of biblical language in an authentic way, in the light of the New Testament and Tradition, teaches that our first parents, Adam and Eve, were constituted in an original "state of holiness and justice".250 This grace of original holiness was "to share in. . .divine life".251
376 By the radiance of this grace all dimensions of man's life were confirmed. As long as he remained in the divine intimacy, man would not have to suffer or die.252 The inner harmony of the human person, the harmony between man and woman,253 and finally the harmony between the first couple and all creation, comprised the state called "original justice".
377 The "mastery" over the world that God offered man from the beginning was realized above all within man himself: mastery of self. The first man was unimpaired and ordered in his whole being because he was free from the triple concupiscence254 that subjugates him to the pleasures of the senses, covetousness for earthly goods, and self-assertion, contrary to the dictates of reason.
378 The sign of man's familiarity with God is that God places him in the garden.255 There he lives "to till it and keep it". Work is not yet a burden,256 but rather the collaboration of man and woman with God in perfecting the visible creation.
379 This entire harmony of original justice, foreseen for man in God's plan, will be lost by the sin of our first parents.
399 Scripture portrays the tragic consequences of this first disobedience. Adam and Eve immediately lose the grace of original holiness.280 They become afraid of the God of whom they have conceived a distorted image - that of a God jealous of his prerogatives.281
400 The harmony in which they had found themselves, thanks to original justice, is now destroyed: the control of the soul's spiritual faculties over the body is shattered; the union of man and woman becomes subject to tensions, their relations henceforth marked by lust and domination.282 Harmony with creation is broken: visible creation has become alien and hostile to man.283 Because of man, creation is now subject "to its bondage to decay".284 Finally, the consequence explicitly foretold for this disobedience will come true: man will "return to the ground",285 for out of it he was taken. Death makes its entrance into human history.
Thanks very much, interesting info - Among other things I did not know Copernicus was a priest.
So were your ancestors monkeys? If so, what breed and when did the split occur?
I'm sure it's on the things to do list.
"So were your ancestors monkeys?"
Nope, but it is believed that monkeys and humans have a common ancestor if you back far enough. We didn't 'come' from monkeys but a guess one could consider them a sort of evolutionary cousin.
Science books are not that expensive maybe you should check one out sometime
"Hominids"? This guy needs a long vacation.
I suggest the time and funds for this be redirected to "How To Spot Sodomite Pedophiles in Your Parish."
The Church never thought that. Neither did the ancient philosophers.
So when the Bible says that God created man in his image, do you think God looks like a monkey?
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