de Chardin participated in perpetuation of the Piltdown Man hoax.
The dogmatic Constitution Gaudium et Spes expresses the dynamics of the thinking of one of the great believers of the twentieth century: Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. I would like to specifically recall his work during this Synod. Whether we like it or not, the global phenomena foreseen by him over sixty years ago surround us today. We all live in a world where the existence of not only the individual person but also all of humanity has become precarious. Teilhard saw life and the universe as a creative movement done by God, a movement which still has not reached its goal. I am convinced that this vision of the Church and the world could indicate a resolution to the crisis and, on the division which exists between faith and life, will have the same beneficial effect on the problems of understanding between Christian reasoning and technological research.
So, if Bishop Zsifkovics was correct, the Second Vatican Council is precisely where Teilhard’s once-condemned propositions found official favor; just as was the case with his brother Jesuit, John Courtney Murray.
Before Francis; under BENEDICT XVI's watch.