by Hugh Owen Starting Point: Fr. Jaki on Genesis 1-11 For all their differences, Stanley Jaki, O.S.B., and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J., agreed on one fundamental point: contemporary natural scientists are much more reliable than the Fathers, Doctors, Popes and Councils of the past in explaining the origins of man and the universe. In […]
by Fr. Thomas Crean, O.P. In discussing the question of whether paradise, as described in the second chapter of the book of Genesis, was a geographical place or simply an allegory of a spiritual truth, St Thomas Aquinas makes the following observation and rule: Those things which are said in Scripture about Paradise, are put […]
by Hugh Owen “The Lord does nothing without telling His servants the prophets” (Amos 3:7). Thus did the prophet Amos guarantee that in every generation God would raise up prophets to interpret the “signs of the times” correctly. But St. Paul in his letter to the Thessalonians added that while God’s people should “despise not […]
This article is taken from the proceedings of the symposium ‘The Two Shall Become One’ held in Rome in September 2015, jointly sponsored by Human Life International and the Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation. The Fossil Record and the Fall of Darwin’s Last Icon by John M. Wynne Introduction Depictions of human evolution […]
This article is taken from the proceedings of the symposium ‘The Two Shall Become One’ held in Rome in September 2015, jointly sponsored by Human Life International and the Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation. Adam and Eve in the Writings of the Mystical Saints and Doctors of the Church by Hugh Owen Prophets […]
Theistic Evolution: A Modern Feat or an Old Foot? by Joseph Gedney “Nothing under the sun is new,” cries Holy Writ, “neither is any man able to say: ‘Behold this is new’: for it hath already gone before in the ages that were before us,” (Eccl. 1:10) The Holy Spirit, in this passage, wants to warn […]
This article is taken from the proceedings of the symposium ‘The Two Shall Become One’ held in Rome in September 2015, jointly sponsored by Human Life International and the Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation. God, Family, and Genetics – A Biblical Perspective Part One: Genetic Evidences Supporting the Divine Origin of Man and […]
This article is taken from the proceedings of the symposium ‘The Two Shall Become One’ held in Rome in September 2015, jointly sponsored by Human Life International and the Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation. The Special Creation of Adam and Eve: The Foundation of the Church’s Teaching on Holy Marriage Fr. Thomas Hickey […]
by Eric Bermingham With an Introduction and a Conclusion by Fr. Thomas Hickey Introduction Why have the Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things? The kings of the earth stood up, and the princes met together, against the Lord, and against his Christ. (Ps 2:1–2). Eric Bermingham has done us a valuable service by critiquing […]
This article is taken from the proceedings of the symposium ‘The Two Shall Become One’ held in Rome in September 2015, jointly sponsored by Human Life International and the Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation. The Metaphysical Impossibility of Human Evolution[1] Fr. Chad Ripperger, Ph.D. Nevertheless, this gift of reason can perform these functions […]