Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a French Jesuit and paleontologist who died a church outcast in New York City in 1955 at age 74. Vatican officials had suppressed his writings on sequential evolution in the universe. Teilhard was not officially a heretic, but rather a victim of church officials who were ignorant and fearful of
Vatican At War With Nuns Over Thinking On Evolution
Pope Francis’s remarks have often sounded compatible with Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s concept of ‘conscious evolution.’ So why are American nuns in trouble for supporting it?