Catholicism and evolution

Booman writes,

Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana is having trouble explaining why he’s promoting Creationism when the pope says that the Big Bang Theory and the Theory of Evolution are consistent with the Catholic faith.

It is evident to even a casual reader that St Paul is a literal-minded creationist, as were the authors of the NT overall, and as were the orthodox Christians of his and every other generation before Darwin.

A supposed valid principle of Biblical interpretation for Catholics is that no reading can be right that is contrary to the views of the Church Fathers, and honest adherence to that rule would rule out acceptance of evolution.

The lack of an authoritative Catholic condemnation of evolution is more a reflection of politics than the view of the Church on the matter.

Clerical defenses of the acceptability of evolution are full of lies, evasions, and weaseling, such as this piece in which a poisonous clerical toad tells us that the Catholic dogma of divine creation is satisfied by the modern view since evolution may be the manner of the thing, and insists that true Catholicism and true natural science are wholly compatible.

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As is well known, dogma still insists on the Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, the bodily assumption of Mary into Heaven, all the OT and NT miracles, and miracles attributed to each and every saint without which none could be accepted as saints.

While the current pope’s attitude pleases liberals, acceptance of evolution in defiance of both tradition and the Bible may well weaken Catholicism rather than strengthen it, since it undermines honesty and licenses opportune theological cowardice in the face of science.

And that may well be why liberals are pleased.

They do not wish Christianity well and they have the morals typical of those who write about politics on the web, those of snakes.

Booman, again, writes,

Former senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania is uncomfortable with the pope’s recent statement that there is no need for Catholics to “breed like rabbits.”

And that is because the Catholic view remains that only sex directed toward procreation is compatible with God's will, and includes morals compatible with that notion: that we have a divine and moral duty to marry and procreate, the larger the family the better.

To the extent his words depart from that this pope is a bit of a crank or a fraud.