Sir, you accuse yourself here. The Pope is speaking (in his own words) against modernism. Modernism is based on an errant natural science that cannot be reconciled with revelation. He explains in Pascendi Dominici Gregis that the error of modernism is based on its adherence to evolution.
I’m sorry, but just because a belief is based upon a scientific theory doesn’t mean that the idea follows logically or necessarily from what it is based upon. There are many erroneous versions of Christianity that are based on the gospel of Jesus Christ. It does not follow that all the gospels are false.
Its very simple. How scary that i live in a world with people who cannot grasp something so simple.
You also presume to speak for the Church.
I am not speaking for the Church. I am telling you what the Church has told me!
in averring that Popes have in official teaching accepted, supported or endorsed evolutionism, theistic or otherwise.
So according to you the Church teaches that the scientific theory of evolution is an evil lie promoted by modernists and atheists?
Its not hard to Google the churches official position on the theory of evolution. But you are only interested in promoting fallacious propaganda. There is no excuse. Perhaps your pride will not allow you to see the light. The Catholic Church, in so far as divine revelation is concerned, neither accepts evolution
or rejects it as a core teaching of the faith; simply because it s not a matter of faith. Its a scientific matter. In so for as theology is concerned, there are no irreconcilable elements in the Theory Of Evolution; and that is to say there is no contradictions in what has been purported to be
scientifically proven evidentially speaking.
Yes, many people do think they know what a Pope is saying when they don’t. Comments by Popes making personal observations in a pastoral setting are not binding on any Christian. Papal Encyclicals such as Pascendi Dominici Gregis and Humani Generis address evolution frontally and far from accepting or supporting it, roundly condemn all conflict with revelation. These Encyclicals are official Church teaching, yea, the voice of Peter, and are binding upon every baptized person.
If there was an intrinsic problem with the theory of evolution, they would not support it at all; they would explicitly condemn it in its entirety and would not waste time trying to explain whats okay to believe about evolution and what is not. The Pope would not say publicly that the Theory of Evolution is more than a hypothesis, since that is giving the theory scientific respectability, and thus an element of truth. He would have rejected it as materialist propaganda. The Pope knows what evolution involves. Evolution involves chance, biological change, as well as
natural selection as a defining element in the development of living organisms. Without these factors, there is no theory of evolution. It either happened or it didn’t. The Church rejects materialism and is very explicit about what is acceptable for a christian to believe. Christians are free to believe the theory of evolution as represented by the scientific theory and the evidence, so long as it is in respect of their faith, judgment, and conscience; but only this and not that which is taught by materialist propaganda.
The modernist supposes that because his viewpoints have received widespread acceptance among church leaders that the Church supports evolution. The Holy Roman Catholic Church never has, can not and will not ever support evolutionism as truth.
It does not deny it either, and it has not and never will accept the idea that there is an intrinsic contradiction between Church teaching and the theory of evolution.
The day she would, she would sign her own death warrant.
Then i am afraid you already missed the funeral.
Finally, many leaders in Israel accepted the syncretism of the Canaanite religions with Yahwism. The books of Jeremiah, Ezechiel and 1st and 2nd Kings chronicle this apostasy with much detail. That syncretism with nature worship brought decay, degeneracy, compromise, loss of faith, treachery, blasphemy and finally the wrath of the LORD when the Babylonians destroyed Jerusalem in 586 BC. The prophets have always been persecuted, ridiculed, insulted, and denounced. Today more and more Catholics are seduced by the syncretism of darwinism and Christianity. Just as ancient Jerusalem fell under the wrath of God, so also a great and terrifying judment awaits those who today adulter the Word of God.
The theory of evolution is not a form of worship. It is a scientific theory, which you are free to reject or accept according to Catholic teaching.
