Teilhard was a “COLLECTIVIST”, that is, man existed for society, not vice versa. No wonder

his works were always welcomed by Communists.

Teilhard was a “SECULARIST”, that is, he identifies science with religion, there is no

supernatural. God is a “cosmic force”, ever evolving, and He is depending on man, more than man

upon Him.

To the scientist Teilhard was a poet and a visionary; to the Catholic theologian he was an

anthropologist, and to the Modernist of our day, he was a philosopher and theologian, the

“Thomas Aquinas” of our age.

In the last analysis of this man’s philosophy, it is overlooked that he is also the Founder of

modern racism, that is, his belief in the radical difference in the nature and potentialities of

the diverse human “races”. For de Chardin, the “race” had not a common origin and so

racial equality was precluded. This aspect of Teilhard’s life seems to be deliberately

concealed, as his liberalistic followers would fail to capture popular opinion if his adhesion to

racism was better known. Those who take part in street “Demos” today clamouring for the

equality of the races on all levels of human life, as in great part devotees of Teilhard and his

sociology. The Phenomenon of Man is not always brought to its logical conclusions.

In the light of this periscope on Teilhard and what it reveals, one can perhaps better understand the

unfortunate extremism of some groups at work in America that recently petitioned Cardinal Cook

for the disinterment of the mortal remains of the Jesuit from the consecrated soil of the Catholic

cemetery where his remains are buried. Their argument is that it was the removal of the mortal

remains of Wycliff from consecrated ground that finally brought home to the Church of his day,

the extent to which he had deviated from Catholic doctrine.

We can expect continuous praise for Teilhard from the ranks of the Modernists. Much of their

intellectual prestige hinges on or around the claims they make on behalf of their idol. If he should

fall from the place of honour and glory assigned to him by his supporters, it would mean a death

blow to our Neo-Modernists. We must be prepared for more alleged statements in his favour

coming from the highest in the Church — it has succeeded in the past and there is no reason why

it should not succeed in the future. Good Pope John XXIII, so promptly cited for holding every

doctrine in the Modernists’ litany, is quoted by the “Teilhard de Chardin Association” as stating

that the monitum of the Holy Office was “regrettable”, and some faceless member of the Bavarian

Academy of Sciences was told to “ignore it”. All efforts to substantiate this claim (so much at

variance with Pope John’s uncompromising attitude on doctrine) have completely failed, and we

can only conclude that it is like the statement put onto the lips of Pope Paul VI, that Fr. Teilhard