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A Catholic Opinion Newsletter 580 South Pear Orchard Road No. 101 Ridgeland, Mississippi 39157 Fall 1999
We have many times discussed the intrusion of Modernist, Neo-Pagan, and New Age philosophies into the Catholic Church. We who object are dismissed as fundamentalists (or worse) and told to get with the times. How sad it is when one attends Holy Mass with the hope of experiencing the `kerygma' or proclamation of Christ, only to be pelted with a mish-mash of New-Age Darwinian Psychobabble. Such was my experience on October 3rd at St. Peter's Cathedral in Jackson when Fr. Patrick Farrell hailed one Piere Teilhard de Chardin as a "great prophet" and expounded Chardin's radical theories as doctrine in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. Teilhard (1881-1955) taught that humanity is evolving into another form, and that "all that arises; converges". Humanity, he said, is converging toward an Omega point, at which collective consciousness will find a new unity. According to Teilhard, Christ is the force behind a collective "Christ consciousness" of Man, which will culminate in the emergence of a "Cosmic Christ" - the true parousia. Teilhard: "The world (its value, its infallibility and its goodness) - that, when all is said and done, is the first, the last, and the only thing in which I believe. It is by this faith that I live. And it is to this faith, I feel, that at the moment of death, rising above all doubts, I shall surrender myself." Christianity and Evolution Teilhard essentially taught that the world itself was being transubstantiated into Christ. In 1947 Teilhard said, "Very definitely there was no Adam and no Eve and no Original Sin." And In 1954 Teilhard wrote to a friend, "I am essentially pantheist in my thinking and in my temperament". Pantheism is the view that equates God with the forces and laws of nature, the worship of nature, i.e. the world. In The Divine Milieu Teilhard makes this telling statement: "This little book does no more than recapitulate the eternal lesson of the Church in the words of a man who, because he believes himself in tune with his own times, has sought to teach how to see God everywhere, to see him in all that is most hidden, most solid, and most ultimate in the world." Charles Henderson, author of God and Science and a Teilhard supporter, comments on these words, "Teilhard, as scientist and thinker, is suggesting that the primary source of religious truth is to be found in the material world rather than in the rnagisterium of the Church". (Emphasis added) Teilhard taught a pagan philosophy (all is one) in Christian and Darwinian terminology. Unfortunately, his blasphemy and heresy have become the source of the heretical teachings of process theology and creation spirituality, which are regularly foisted upon the uninformed faithful. Fr. Matthew Fox, who took up Teilhard's mantle, was expelled from the Dominican order for preaching this new age nonsense. Whether one uses terms like Gaia (goddess of the earth), or "Cosmic Christ" the crux of the matter is a pagan philosophy that sees Man in a spiritual union with the universe emerging to a glorious pinnacle. The Church however, teaches that there is a City of God, and a City of Man (St. Augustine)-a Culture of Life and a Culture of Death (Pope John Paul II). Scripture teaches that the collective will and consciousness of man will not reach a "Cosmic Christ", but rather its antithesis, the Antichrist. Man sitting on the throne claiming to be God (2 Thess.2). One of Pope John Paul II's first encyclicals was Redemptor Hominis, which reaffirmed the real existence of Adam. Pope Paul VI in Credo of the People of God made forceful statements concerning the reality of Adam and Original Sin. But in the theology of Teilhard we are all becoming Christ. There is no Original Sin, and therefore no need of Redemption. Evolutionary forces are ferrying everyone along to God-hood and all are `anonymous Christians' making faith in the literal death and resurrection of Christ unnecessary. Teilhard was a convinced Darwinian (he participated in the Piltdown `missing link' hoax) who thought that by calling the theorized process of natural selection "Christ" he could sanctify Darwin. Teilhard taught that the world is God and that man evolves into Christ. This is heresy and blasphemy and it is evil! Not surprisingly, Teilhard apologists and neo-pagans have tried to legitimize their views by misstating the Pope's October 1996 speech on evolutionary theories to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences entitled `Truth Cannot Contradict Truth' (available on the Internet at http://www.sni/net/advent/docs/jp02.htm). The Pope, speaking to a group of scientists, stated that `there are arguments in favor of this (evolutionary) theory' but he dismissed such theories apart from a creator. The Pope dismissed Darwinian evolution (i.e. evolution without God). The speech is anti-Darwinian. The speech was not an Encyclical or dogmatic statement but simply an encouragement to scientists to be faithful to God as they pursued "several theories". Pope John Paul, unlike Teilhard, believes in Original Sin, the existence of Adam, and that Jesus Christ is not a `force of nature' but the God Man who literally died on the Cross and rose again. He told the scientists they were free to pursue `theories' of evolution as long as they realized that God's relationship with man was key. The Pope said, "Man is the only creature on earth that God has wanted for it's own sake" and, "The human individual cannot be subordinated as a pure means or instrument either to a species or a society; he has value per se. He is a person." The Pope reasserted that each person is an independent creation and not merely a cosmic cog in some grand evolutionary scheme. The media of course, reported the opposite. The world is not heading toward an Omega point of cosmic consciousness. It is headed for ajudgement day and there are two groups emerging in a confrontation. On one hand there are those who worship, love and serve God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. On the other hand there are the New-Age disciples of Teilhard de Chardin and his ilk who think that we are God. Teilhard's pagan teachings are a heresy to be vigorously denounced, and any discussion of them belongs in an academic setting. It is unconscionable to speak these heresies from the pulpit as a stumbling block to the faithful. It breaks my heart to leave the Cathedral after seven years where my dear friends are and where my children have learned to worship God. But I cannot and will not listen to a bunch of New-Age poppycock that mocks and diminishes the saving sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ. May the prayers of our dear Blessed Mother Mary and the peace of our God the Lord Jesus Christ be with you always, Jack Keene
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