The case of Piltdown man constitutes the greatest scandal known in the history of human paleontology. The first blunder or fraud involving Fr. Teilhard de Chardin, which discredited him as a ‘scientist’ in the scientific community, took place In February 1912.The fact is that a group of British researchers, including Sir Wilfred Le Gros Clark, Kenneth P. Oakley, Joseph Weiner, Gordon Claringbull, Max Hey, and Jan de Vries, demonstrated that everything was fraudulent in the Piltdown find over … [Read more...]
The Move to Make the Dissenter a Doctor of the Church!
By Sir Raymond J de Souza, KHSA very interesting article by Heidi Schlumpf in the National Catholic Reporter from January 27, 2018, revealed some important realities regarding the thinking of Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. What follows are some important segments from the article, accompanied by my simple comments. [Bold type is added for emphasis.]Heidi Schlumpf writes: "At a meeting of scientists and church leaders from around the world, members of the Pontifical Council for … [Read more...]
Fr. Teilhard de Chardin: Dissenter Condemned by the Holy See to Become a Doctor of the Church?
James T. Keane, the senior editor for the Jesuit-run "America" magazine, awakened my curiosity with his September 2023 article titled, “Pope Francis caused a stir by quoting Teilhard de Chardin, the often ‘misunderstood’ Jesuit.”Saying that Teilhard de Chardin was “misunderstood” is like saying that Martin Luther was "misunderstood" since he also was a properly ordained Catholic priest, and "reformed" the church by fragmenting Her into thousands of sects.I was interested in the … [Read more...]