Galileo, Teilhard, and “Co-Redemptrix”

[Pax_Tibi]

The Hierarchy’s obligation to protect orthodoxy is a given.

In the past when scholarship led to new ideas that eventually led to accepted knowledge, the Church had the luxury of extended periods of time (decades, centuries) to digest, evaluate, accept, acquiesce, and then disseminate obvious advancement in thought. (Galileo). Not to do so would lead to loss of relevancy.

That was then. Knowledge “trickled down” on us. Now, scholarship, new ideas and knowledge “deluges” us in “Tsunamic” proportions. The continuing flood of knowledge will only intensify.

A long lead in to my question. The prompt to this question came from reading in these forums about the idea of Mary as “Co-Redemptrix” with Christ and questions regarding the thoughts of Teilhard de Chardin.

How does the Church stay abreast of new ideas? Does the Church ever worry about staying relevant to new generations more educated and exposed to new knowledge?

So, I started thinking about:
• What mechanism is in place, which department or Office is in charge of addressing advances in accepted new knowledge?
• Is there a forum available to monitor the ongoing deliberations?
• What “Hot Topic” ideas, if any, are currently being discussed?

Thanks.

 

[mschrank]

I think the short version to your question is that the Vatican has several “congregations” where it receives advice from all kinds of people, and those that head them are often authorities in their own right (for example, on scientific matters, or theological ones).