Gilson wrote to de Lubac, “The ravages he wrought, which I have witnessed, are horrifying.”

George Sim Johnston writes,

“Teilhard concocted from evolutionary theory a kind of process theology that, among other things, implicitly denies the doctrine of original sin. Pope Pius XII once asked the great French thelogican Etienne Gilson to write a critique of Teilhard’s work. Gilson replied that such a task was impossible because Teilhard’s books were poetry and not philosophy. You cannot “refute” a poem.

Even Teilhard’s serious defenders, like Henri de Lubac, make constant apologies for his imprecise use of language. But habitual imprecision with words is a kind of primal offense in a theologian. Teilhard is one of those seductive thinkers, like Montaigne, who bristle with arresting insights and turns of phrase. But if you search their writings for a coherent metaphysics, yo find yourself pursuing a vapor.”

“You cannot get any benefit or any enlightenment from thinking about Teilhard,” Gilson wrote to de Lubac, “The ravages he wrought, which I have witnessed, are horrifying.”

– Catholic writer George Sim Johnston, Did Darwin Get It Right?: Catholics and the Theory of Evolution (Our Sunday Visitor Publishing, 1998), pp. 126-27.

— Being ready. “…it is appointed for men once to die, and after that comes the judgment“— Heb. 9:27

Luke 12: ³⁷ Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes; truly, I say to you, he will gird himself and have them sit at table, and he will come and serve them. ³⁸ If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them so, blessed are those servants! ³⁹ But know this, that if the householder had known at what hour the thief was coming, he^[e] would not have left his house to be broken into. ⁴⁰ You also must be ready; for the Son of man is coming at an unexpected hour.”