Creation or Evolution? Here Is the View of the Church of Rome

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Sandro Magister, professor, columnist and Vatican expert who stands head and shoulders above the imitators, has done it again. One of the major debates of the 21st century has been debated for 150 years, most famously at the Scopes trial in Tennessee: Creationism v. Evolution. Magister presents today in his weekly column Chiesa ("Church") for your study, the current thinking of the Catholic Chuirch on the debate. Here's a tip. All the evidence is not yet in.

Creationists versus Darwinists, “intelligent design” versus random selection, the controversy is as heated as ever. The pope is studying the issue with a team of experts. Keep reading to find the truth he wants to reassert. And the confusion he wants to clear up

All those who are expected to attend Benedict XVI’s private seminar with his former theology students at Castel Gandolfo in early September will come with the necessary documents tucked away in their briefcases.

Among the papers, an article published by “L’Osservatore Romano” on January 16, 2006, stands out. It is signed Fiorenzo Facchini, who is both priest and scientist, and teaches anthropology at the University of Bologna. He has written extensively on the question of evolution.

The importance of this article – which appears in its entirety below – is confirmed in the latest issue of “La Civiltà Cattolica”, a Jesuit journal published in Rome under the control and with the authorization of Vatican authorities.

In the August 5-19 issue of “La Civiltà Cattolica”, Jesuit Giuseppe De Rosa reserves ten pages to evolution and its workings, from Lamarck and Darwin up to today. He signs off his piece with a reference to Facchini’s “L’Osservatore Romano” article which he considers the most up-to-date synthesis of the position of the Catholic Church in the matter. [snip] Read the balance in Chiesa