“No Catholic on this forum will answer such a question,”
I did.
You know what? You're right! You did. You said you didn't believe in evolution. But you never seem to mind too much when your co-religionists are running around saying there was no Adam and Eve, and I believe you said once that John 6 was more certain than Genesis 1 because in the latter "no one was there." Well, that wasn't true, of course, since the Author was there, but . . . point is, you don't believe in evolution, but it doesn't bother you very much, nor do you seem to care when co-religionists make evolutionism into a quasi-dogma that separates "true chrstians" from "bibliolatrous heretics."
“and the subject of the article has made it clear that origins (and thus the historical details of Genesis) aren’t important.”
I don’t think that’s what he believes. If you’re afraid to write him, fine. It’s just an email.
If he didn't believe in evolution, no Catholic FReeper would be pushing him as a heroic convert--especially not NYer. Nevertheless I'll e-mail him. It's not like I'm going to read something in response that I've never read before.
“If he didn’t believe in evolution, no Catholic FReeper would be pushing him as a heroic convert—especially not NYer.”
Actually I would have posted about him but I didn’t know he published a book. I did, however, if I am not mistaken, link to his article on his conversion last year : http://www.calledtocommunion.com/2012/09/i-fought-the-church-and-the-church-won/
“Nevertheless I’ll e-mail him. It’s not like I’m going to read something in response that I’ve never read before.”
I’m glad you’ll write to him. Even if you get a response you don’t like, you lose nothing but a few minutes time.