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Finding Of 10 Million-Year-Ofdi §,
Manlike Skeleton No Challenge To
Catholic Teaching, Article Says
VATICAN CITY, (NC) — The
recent discovery of a 10 million-
year-old manlike skeleton does
n’t challenge the truth of the
biblical account of the Creation
or of Catholic teaching, accord
ing to an official of the Sacred
Congregation of the Holy Office.
The official dealt with the re
cent anthropological discovery in
an article in L’Osservatore della
Domenica, Vatican City week
ly. Using the pen name “Cro-
ma,” he answered a reader’s let
ter concerning the finding of
the skeleton of a manlike crea
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lo, in the mountains of Tuscany
about 90 miles north of Rome.
Its discoverer, Dr. Johannes
Huerzeler, a Swiss paleontolo
gist, has identified the skeleton
as belonging to Oreopithecus—
from the Greek word for moun
tain ape. Scattered bits of fossils
of the same species were found
in Tuscany as long ago as 1872,
and were originally believed to
represent an extinct type of
monkey.
The scientific team headed by
Dr. Huerzeler maintains that the
finding of the complete skeleton
of the four and a half foot crea
ture proves that it is a huma
noid, or manlike, species, wholly
separate from the ape. It is, they
hold, “the earliest progenitor of
man yet discovered.”
In answer to a reader’s letter
concerning the find, “Croma”
wrote in L’Osservatore della Do-
■ menica that there are two ques
tions involved:
1. Do the assertions of modern
scientists regarding the age of
the earth and of man contradict
the Bible?
2. Is the theory of evolution,
particularly in regard to the
origin of man, in contradiction
to Catholic teaching?
Answering the first question,
the author stated:
“The calculation of the age of
the universe by scientists as be
ing millions or billions of years
old (and hundreds of thousands
for man) has never been in con
tradiction to the Bible.”
He said that the geneology
given in Genesis, which ac
counts for only a few thousand
years, is not intended to repre
sent a determined number of
successive generations but
merely alludes to some of the
principal personages of the his
tory and prehistory of the Jew
ish people.
Pope Leo XIII, in his encyc
lical Proventissimus Deus, rec
ommended that the problem of
determining the earth’s age be
left to scientists, the author re
called. He said this same advice
was repeated by. His Holiness
Pope Pius XII in Divino Af-
flante Spiritu and Humani Gen
eris.
Turning to the second .ques
tion, the writer pointed out that
the Bible and Catholic theology
demand belief in the fact that
the human soul was created di
rectly by God and that man’s
body was'formed through a par
ticular divine action.
“In short, the appearance of
the first human couple was the
deliberate object of Divine Pro
vince and was not left solely to
the development or evolution of
the forces of nature,” he said.
“Admitting these premises,
several Catholic authors have
written and write today that it
would be possible to admit the
derivation of the human body
from that of a higher animal.”
In conclusion, the article re
ferred again to Humani Generis.
In that encyclical, the Pope
pointed out that the Church does
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THOUGHTS IN SOLITUDE,
by Thomas Merton (Farrar,
Straus & Cadahy, $3.00).
Father Merton’s books be
come more and more difficult
to read and review. And that is
good, because they are not
meant to be read and reviewed.
They are meant to be meditated,
bit by bit, sometimes sentence
by sentence. His earlier books
combined this quality with ac
counts of his own or other peo
ple’s activity; the later ones
eliminate the activity more and
more, retaining only the
“thoughts in solitude,” the
echoes of this unutterable con
versation with God. By these
echoes, however, he still teaches
those who care to listen to him
and with him; this is the price
less overflow of his contempla
tion.
Practically any page of this
small, rich volume could illus
trate the point, so almost at
random we choose one: “My
life is a listening,” he says, “His
(God’s) is a speaking. My salva
tion is to hear and respond. For
this, my life must be silent.
Hence, my silence is my salva
tion. The sacrifice that pleases
God is the offering of my soul—
and of other men’s souls. The
soul is offered to Him when it
is entirely attentive to Him. My
silence, which takes me away
from all other things, is there
fore the sacrifice of all things
and the offering of my soul to
God. It is therefore my most
pleasing sacrifice. If I can teach
others to live in the same silence,
I am offering Him a most
pleasing sacrifice. . . .”
Who can read that and turn
the page? Only the person who
has no inkling of what he
means, or does not care to learn.
Others must stop and ponder it
and learn from him how to live
a little more in such a silence as
he describes, a listening, an
attentiveness, . to God who
speaks only in such profound
silences.
READINGS IN THE HISTO
RY’ OF WESTERN CIVILIZA
TION, Volume I, selected by
Thomas P. Neill (Newman,
$2.25).
“At its best,” says Riley
Hughes in the June-July 1958
issue of The Critic, “history is a
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and Mrs. James A. Lafitte. and
William E. Ridgeway, son of the
late Mr. and Mrs. William E.
Ridgeway, were married August
2nd with a Nuptial Mass at the
Sacred Heart Church, Rev. Rob
ert Ripp, officiating.
mode of contemplation; the past
clamors for interpretation, espe
cially in an age of crisis such
as ours. Yet, since most of the
past has vanished, how can we
be sure that what we read as
history really is history? ...
Through malice or through
ignorance a historian may
make a mistaken judgement
because the true meaning of a
fact has been lost....”
“The historical process,” says
Edward Gargan in the same
issue of the same magazine, “is
to be understood as the move
ment of all great societies either
toward or away from union with
God. All who believe agree with
this idea....”
Judged by these standards,
much of the material in text
books and supplementary read
ing used by secular colleges is
not history at its best; nor do
the authors view history as be
lievers. Hence the necessity of
such books as this one, assem
bled by Doctor Neill, of the De
partment of History at St. Louis
University, to present the Cath
olic attitude on frequently mis
interpreted subjects, for stu
dents in non-Catholic colleges,
as well as for other readers
interested in history as the
movement of society toward
union with God. We have
actually used this volume, the
first in a proposed “college
readings series,” in connection
with the survey course in the
history of western civilization
given at Georgia State College,
and found it immensely helpful.
Doctor Neill’s own introduc
tion is one of the most inter
esting chapters in the book.
“The essence of history to the
Christian,” he says, “is the dra
matic story of creation, of God’s
challenge to the one creature
made to His image and likeness,
and of man’s response to this
challenge.” Non-Christian his
torians miss this essential fact
completely.
The twenty-four chapters
which follow are selected from
the writings of such authorities
as Pope Pius XII. Chesterton,
Belloc, Dawson, Hollis, and
others whose interpretation of
the past is reliable. The subject
range includes prehistoric man,
Catholicism and the religions
of mankind, the fall of the
Roman Empire, the Inquisition,
Church and State in the Middle
Ages, Byzantine civilization,
Islam and the Koran, the
Italian Renaissance, the origins
of the Reformation, Protestant
ism in England, Christianity and
capitalism, the Council of Trent,
Galileo, and the cultural aspects
of the Catholic Reformation. All
selections are scholarly; most
of them are at the same time
fascinatingly readable. The only
regrettable thing in the paper-
covered volume is that such an
excellent work is marred
by innumerable typographical
errors.
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not forbid competent scientists
and theologians from engaging
in research on or discussion of
the doctrine of evolution and
the origins of man.
The article noted however,
that the encyclical adds qualifi
cations to this freedom, namely
that the human soul was created
directly by God and that the
reasons for and against the theo
ry of evolution was weighed and
judged with the necessary seri
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and that all are ready to sub
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