From June 22 to 25, 2026, the Association of United States Catholic Priests (AUSCP) is gathering for its 15th Annual Assembly at the Renaissance St. Louis Airport Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri. The assembly's theme is "Building the Future: Church, Priesthood, and Global Engagement." Among the featured keynote speakers is Sr. Kathleen Duffy, SSJ, PhD, Professor Emerita of Physics and Director of the Institute for Religion and Science at Chestnut Hill College and President of the American Teilhard … [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...]
More ‘scientific’ contradiction of Fr. Teilhard de Chardin
As a scientist, Teilhard de Chardin was a failure. He did not mind contradicting himself in his ‘scientific’ endeavors. On pages 106-107 of his chef-d’oeuvre, "L'Apparition de l'Homme"” we read: "From man (i.e., a true Homo Sapiens), three skulls of adults were obtained, absolutely complete (mandible included), a pelvis with two femurs, the radius, the tibia, the calcaneus, etc. In short, half a dozen individuals are represented, including a child" (see pp. 106-107).That is, fossils of Homo … [Read more...]
