Imagine citing that fraud du Chardin as a scientist/theologion.I have never understood how one could possibly consider him anything but a liar and a duplicitous little "piece of work",do they think we are brain dead?
The only thing that resembled a truthful,factual statement was that Mother Teresa and Dorothy Day were great witnesses for Christianity and in that he left out the most important thing,they were,orthodox,holy and totally Catholic.
I laughed when I read this gem. It really shows the arrogant subtext of the article.
The human project requires intellectual, moral and religious conversion (to use the language of Bernard Lonergan), and such conversion is not easy. One can almost hear a heretical Kermit the "catholic" frog singing "It ain't easy being me." To be attentive, to be intelligent, to be reasonable, to be responsible and to be loving requires hard work. We liberals are geniuses and those obedient Catholics are dolts. It is easier to be inattentive, thoughtless, unreasonable, irresponsible and selfish. Maintain the Bonds of Unity in Worship, Doctrine, Authority and one barely qualifies as a mammal. Our personal, group and cultural biases keep us from adopting a higher viewpoint from which to see new solutions to our problems. Why the hell don't we just start our own and better church so the worthless idiots out there will benefit from our immeasureable wisdom?