Author: Cecily Stone is a mother, writer, computer nerd and author of “These Chasms in the Earth.” Her works have appeared in ...

Are American nuns paying for the sins of a Jesuit priest who died in the 1950s? It might seem that way, given the ongoing showdown between doctrinal hard-liners in the Vatican and leaders representing ...

Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, T. 76, Fasc. 4, Habitar as Fronteiras do Pensamento: Os Jesuítas e a Filosofia do Séc. XX / Inhabiting the Frontiers of Thought: The Contribution of Jesuit ...

A new mystic has burst upon the contemporary consciousness in the person of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a French savant who died some half-dozen years ago but whose writing are only now being ...

VATICAN CITY — The 70th anniversary of the death on April 10 of Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the controversial French Jesuit whose works the Vatican formally censured in 1962, has given further ...

French Jesuit Teilhard de Chardin in 1955. (Credit: Stock image.) Listen By now, Pope Francis has attracted plenty of nicknames in the media and popular conversation, ranging from the “People’s Pope” ...

Naming Jesuit Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin a doctor of the church — or at least removing the "warning" from his writings — would give the Jesuit scientist and philosopher more legitimacy in the ...

This past week, leaders at a meeting of the Pontifical Council for Culture in Rome formally requested that Pope Francis lift the official disclaimer of the Catholic Church against the writings of the ...

Nearly 50 years after his death, Teilhard's classic work on theology, philosophy and science seems remarkably fresh, even prescient. The French Jesuit priest and paleontologist was forbidden to ...

(RNS) A French Jesuit's ideas of "conscious evolution" may be at the heart of the showdown between American nuns and Vatican hard-liners. It might seem that way, given the ongoing showdown between ...