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8 GEORGIA BULLETIN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1968
Cites Teilhard
Theologian Criticizes Both
Sides In Encyclical Dispute
MILWAUKEE - (NC) ■ — Adherents of both sides in the
controversy concerning Pope Paul Vi’s encyclical on birth control
were criticized by a priest-theologian here at a Marquette University
symposium.
THE HOLY FATHER'S MISSION AID TO THE ORIENTAL CHURCH
We shudder when we see them on TV, the
families in India who have never lived indoors.
Father Robert L. Faricy, S.J.,
assistant theology professor at
the Catholic University of
America, Washington, D.C., said
the encyclical has polarized
forces in the Church that have
been taking shape for some time.
“On the one hand,” he said,
“many have taken the stance that
Rome has spoken, the matter is
closed, artificial birth control is
absolutely immoral in all cases
without exception.
“This,” he said, “is to take a
magical view of the teaching
authority of the Church as an
answer machine rather than an
organic, living body.”
On the other hand. Father
Faricy said, the “position that
‘the Pope is wrong’ and must be
campaigned against, is
simplistic.”
Speaking at a two-day
symposium, “Teilhard and the
Task of Theology,” Father Faricy
discussed the question of Church
authority in light of the theory of
cosmic redemption of Father
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin,
French Jesuit scientist and
explorer, who died in. 1955.
“Teilhard sees the world not as
a static and finished cosmos but
as a universe in evolution, a world
that is in process, not yet what it
will be in the future,” he said.
Teilhard saw the world’s
redemption mediated by the
Catholic Church, Father Faricy
said, that Christianity is “the
central axis of the world’s
progress toward its final state of
harmony and unification.”
“Given the importance of the
Church’s authority function in an
evolutionary world of which the
Church is the axis, it is certainly
no accident that the most
important, most difficult, and
most acute Catholic issue today is
the question of Church
authority,” he declared.
He said the questioning of the
Church s authority, even
legitimate and legitimately
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a bad thing.”
“It marks an evolution in the
Church’s effort to attain a better
understanding of the delicate
balance between freedom and
authority. And, like any
evolution, it is paid for with
suffering,” he added.
He said the Catholic Church, in
Teilhard’s theological vision, is
held together by charity, not
authority. Even so, he said,
“there are obvious totaliarian
elements and tendencies in the
Church.”
“But these totalitarian
elements exist only to the extent
that the Church is not
sufficiently faithful to her own
identity,” he declared.
Father Faricy urged critics of
the Church to follow the example
of Teilhard.
“Few men,” he said, “have
seen the errors of Church
officials, the blindness of Church
leaders, and the lack of flexibility
and openness on the part of the
hierarchy as well as did Teilhard
de Chardin.”
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