False Obedience and the "Rehabilitation" of Teilhard de Chardin in "Osservatore Romano"

The Eponymous Flower ^ | Thursday, January 9, 2014 | Giuseppe Nardi

[ebb tide]

The Monitus reads: "Certain works of Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, including some posthumous, are published and can not find the least benevolence. [...] In the philosophical and theological point of view it clearly recognizes that the said works contain dangerous ambiguities and serious errors which offend Catholic doctrine."

[ebb tide]

Get rid of Cardinal Burke and rehabilitate Teilhard de Chardin. Anybody see a modernist agenda?

[bunkerhill7]

I thought Chardin said that we are going somewhere, like to a universal meeting or something?. I am stupoid.

[chajin]

In the 1963 book and 1968 movie The Shoes of the Fisherman, the character of Father Telemond is supposed to be based on de Chardin; while his views are presented as heterodox, his character is presently sympathetically.

[ebb tide]

I can understand that; especially when the book’s author, Morris West, divorced and remarried without benefit of an annulment. If only he lived in Germany today!

[ebb tide]

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.

[jobim]

Yes. “Everything that rises must converge” he said, pointing to a rise in life’s continuum over time, meaning that time shall bring improvement as we rocket toward oneness with the Creator. And the little lupus lady Flannery O’Connor blasted this heresy to smithereens in her short story of the same name, saying that there is not human “progress” that brings us to salvation, but “grace” coming in a flash.