Teilhard de Chardin and His Relevance for Today

[Woodstock Report, June 2005, No. 82]

On Easter Day in 1955, a French Jesuit priest and paleontologist died suddenly of a heart attack in New York City, an obscure death following a fairly obscure life - as far as the general public was concerned. Within just a few years, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was celebrated within the church he served and the world he loved. And, 50 years after his final diminishment (a word that he used creatively in connection with ultimate communion with Christ), Teilhard remains an undiminished figure of intellectual and spiritual life within Catholicism and beyond. more