(Catholic World News) — In a series of eight tweets (March 27, March 27, March 29, April 1, April 2, April 2, April 2, April 4), Father Antonio Spadaro, SJ, undersecretary of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Culture and Education, highlighted the legacy of Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955), the French Jesuit philosopher and paleontologist whose support for eugenics continued even after the Holocaust.
“Since he was a child he felt called to reach out towards the freshness of reality, to seek it, to find it everywhere,” Father Spadaro wrote in one tweet. “Teilhard has always known that at the bottom of things there is an incandescence that has pushed him to love matter for spiritual reasons. It is this welding between matter and spirit that has led him to perceive exuberance and boiling of energy, superabundance of life.”
In 2015, Father Spadaro wrote the preface to a new edition of The Priest, a 1918 work by Father Teilhard. Father Spadaro is also the author of the preface to a new edition of Father Teilhard’s autobiography, which will be published on April 18.
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Photo of Fr. Antonio Spadaro taken in front of the complete collection of La Civiltà Cattolica. Image credit: Antoniospadaro, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
