PiusIXbyAdolpheBraun1875-2 Type post Author Michael Flannery Date September 25, 2026 CategoriesEvolutionFaith & ScienceHistory of Science Tagged , __trending, argumentum ex silentio, Canon George D. Smith, Catholic Church, Catholic University of America Press, Chance or Purpose?, conflations, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, Descent of Man, false dilemma, First Things, Fr. Michael Chaberek, Galileo Affair, Historical Aspects of Organic Evolution, Index Librorum Prohibitorum, intelligent evolution, Kenneth W. Kemp, Michael Keas, On the Genesis of Species, Origin of Species, Philip G. Fathergill, Pope Pius IX, Richard Owen, St. George Jackson Mivart, Stephen M. Barr, The Origins of Catholic Evolutionism, The Teaching of the Catholic Church, Unbelievable Slapdash History, Questionable Logic Applied to “Catholic Evolutionism” Michael Flannery September 25, 2026 Evolution, Faith & Science, History of Science 5 When Pope Pius IX awarded St. George Jackson Mivart a doctorate, he was not by implication casting his imprimatur or approval on evolution. Read More ›
PopePiusXIIStatue Type post Author Michael Chaberek Date January 28, 2026 CategoriesEvolutionFaith & Science Tagged , Adam and Eve, Aquinas and Evolution, Aristotle, Catholic evolutionism, Catholic scientists, Catholicism and Evolution, Christianity, Congregation of the Index, Daniel Kuebler, Darwin and Doctrine, Darwinism, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, faith and science, First Things, Humani Generis, Kenneth W. Kemp, Knowledge and Evolution, neo-Platonism, Plato, Pope Leo XIII, Pope Pius IX, Raffaello Caverni, St. George Jackson Mivart, St. Thomas Aquinas, Stephen Barr, Steve Greene, Syllabus Errorum, The Origins of Catholic Evolutionism, Zoonomia Catholicism and Evolution: A Response to Stephen Barr Michael Chaberek, O.P. January 28, 2026 Evolution, Faith & Science 17 These publications are far from telling, in Barr’s words, “the full story of how the Church did react to the theory of evolution.” Read More ›