Heretic de Chardin Dusted Off and Celebrated at Jesuit College in Rome

I remember Father Leonard Feeney’s brother, Jesuit Father Thomas Feeney, telling a group of us how, when de Chardin was visiting the Jesuit house in Boston, an argument took place at dinner between an older priest and the cosmic evolutionist over the reality of the Resurrection of the Body of Christ and that of all the dead on the last day. The heretic delighted himself in  expounding his fanciful ideas about man’s joining the Omega Christ in some kind of pantheistic union where all multiplicity would cease. If I remember correctly, from what Father Thomas Feeney told us, it was at this same dinner that Father Leonard called de Chardin a heretic to his face. Brother Francis once attended a talk hosted by a convent of nuns in Canada where a disciple of Chardin’s pushed the same heresy about the resurrection. When Brother questioned him, he replied sarcastically: “Are you speaking about the cadaver?”

When I was nineteen years-old, 1971, I drove my mother from our home in New Jersey to Regina Laudis cloistered Benedictine monastery in Connecticut to attend a sung Latin Mass. In the bookstore was an abundant supply of Teilhardian propaganda. He was riding a high wave at the time. That is how stupid the religious were, cloistered or not, in the early 70s, ears itching for novelties. It would take a long article for me to list all the heresies of Chardin. They fall into the category of: “You name the Catholic dogma and he denied it.”

Even Bishop Fulton Sheen in his liberal period had this to say about the conniving charlatan ( Nota Bene: Chardin was caught red handed of pushing the hoax of the infamous Piltdown Man, i.e., the “missing link”): “It is very likely that within 50 years when all the trivial, verbose disputes about the meaning of Teilhard’s ‘unfortunate’ vocabulary will have died away or have taken a secondary place, Teilhard will appear like John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila, as the spiritual genius of the twentieth century.” (Footprints in a Darkened Forest).

From Rorate Caeli website: Certain events are by themselves highly symbolic… The “cosmic nightmare” of one of the most bizarre pseudo-theologians of the 20th century, and its most dated religious thinker, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, was celebrated with a major conference, on November 9-10, in the Society of Jesus’s own Pontifical Gregorian University, dedicated to finding a role for him and his ideas in the “new evangelization”. Read the full article here of Italian journalist, Francesco Agnoli, published in the daily Il Foglio on November 8.     Certain events are by themselves highly symbolic… The “cosmic nightmare” of one of the most bizarre pseudo-theologians of the 20th century, and its most dated religious thinker, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, was celebrated with a major conference, on November 9-10, in the Society of Jesus’s own Pontifical Gregorian University, dedicated to finding a role for him and his ideas in the “new evangelization”.