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By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture, June 08, 2023
The Jesuits have—wait for it—opened the Teilhard de Chardin Center in a suburb of Paris. It seems the famous Teilhard cannot be allowed to rest in peace. His dubious evolutionary theology has fascinated Catholic progressives at least since the 1960s. When I was of college age, Teilhard studies and gatherings were enormously popular among young adults who had some Catholic upbringing but were in more-or-less secret rebellion against Catholic sexual ethics.
And why? Because Teilhard took all the specificity out of Catholic faith and morals.
Teilhard described God’s plan for history as an evolutionary process which would eventually result in everything reaching the Omega Point (Christ being the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end), a point of complete unity and harmony in Christ. …
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Jeffrey Mirus holds a Ph.D. in intellectual history from Princeton University. A co-founder of Christendom College, he also pioneered Catholic Internet services. He is the founder of Trinity Communications and CatholicCulture.org