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 ...

Visionary Teilhard de Chardin was a man of contradictions upon contradictions. He was a Jesuit priest who accepted Darwinian evolution and played a role in the discovery of Peking man. He was a ...

The title of Don DeLillo’s new novel reverses a concept known as the Omega Point, which was coined by the renegade Catholic thinker Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Teilhard believed the universe was ...

(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 ...