The Association of United States Catholic Priests (AUSCP) has invited Father Ronald Rolheiser, OMI, to serve as the retreat master at its 2025 Assembly in San Antonio. That choice is no surprise. Rolheiser’s soft-focus spirituality, steeped in eroticized mysticism, psychological sentimentality, and doctrinal ambiguity, makes him an ideal voice for an organization long committed to undermining Catholic teaching.But Rolheiser’s danger goes beyond mood. Across his extensive body of writing, he … [Read more...]
Condemned Theologian to Keynote Dissident Priest’s Assembly
The dissident Association of United States Catholic Priests (AUSCP) is once again holding its Annual Assembly, this year in San Antonio, Texas, between June 23-26. The theme of this year’s assembly is Sex and Spirituality Pastoral Considerations. True to form, the AUSCP, while claiming to be “in good standing in dioceses and religious communities,” has invited a professor of theology whose most significant work was condemned by the USCCB, to keynote its assembly.This is not at all … [Read more...]
Summing up the saga of a failed ‘scientist’ and a neo-pagan ‘theologian”
[Editor’s Note: this is the sixth article in Sir Raymond de Souza’s Teilhard de Chardin series. Here are links to the first five –Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6]In this series, we have been considering the views of Fr. Teilhard de Chardin from his supposed ‘scientific’ and ‘theological’ viewpoints. In summary, the sad reality is that the Jesuit “paleontologist” Fr. Pierre Marie Teilhard de Chardin, who some ‘progressive’ nuns and writers from the National … [Read more...]
Evolution: A scientific theory or metaphysical truth?
[Editor’s Note: this is the sixth article in Sir Raymond de Souza’s Teilhard de Chardin series. Here are links to the first five –Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5]Let us see in what terms Fr. Teilhard de Chardin introduces us to evolution, so that we may evaluate well the transposition he made, unsustainably, from paleontology to metaphysics.What is evolution? Teilhard responds: "One theory, one system, one hypothesis, Evolution?... No: more than this, a general … [Read more...]
The Fanatical Extrapolation from Paleontology to Metaphysics in the Weird Thinking of Father Teilhard de Chardin
[Editor's Note: this is the fifth article in Sir Raymond de Souza's Teilhard de Chardin series. Here are links to the first four -Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4]Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a firm, enthusiastic believer in the absolute evolution of the species and of the whole universe. He never considered that the second law of thermodynamics disproved evolution as a scientific reality. His enthusiasm made him slide down the dizzying extrapolation ramp that extended … [Read more...]
