Christmas Kalenda Proclamation

[Cor_ad_Cor]

I just stumbled upon this older article by Jimmy Akin where he dissects the timeline in both versions of the Proclamation. I found it particularly interesting, especially the conclusion about the accuracy.

http://m.ncregister.com/blog/jimmy-akin/how-to-understand-the-christmas-proclamation

 

[Feanor2]

I think it is a good change.

There are countless mystical aspects to the prayers used in the Mass and the Divine Liturgy- the specific expression of a young Earth history is just too hard to swallow given our knowledge of the dynamics of evolution, geology, astronomy etc.

 

[Loud-living-dogma]

Should we ask the OP what he thinks of the Flood and the ark? How about Adam and Eve? What science says about these, versus what the Church teaches?

 

[JLP1]

Worse yet, nature is supposed to be part of God’s self-revelation to us. If close and careful study of that self-revelation over centuries consistently yields misleading, faulty, or unreliable information from which no accurate conclusions can be drawn, that says something very scary about God and what He intends for us to learn about Himself from the general revelation, and it calls into question the reliability of the special revelation as well.