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Entry: Remembering WFB Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/remembering_wfb#22718 Post contents: Regarding Teilhard de Chardin, the most impressive literature about his nefarious influence has appeared in French and Spanish. If you can read either, let me recommend: Fr. Philippe de la Trinite, OCD. POUR ET CONTRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN, PENSEUR RELIGIEUX (Saint-Cenere: Editions Saint-Michel, 1970), which is comprehensive but not overlong; (In translation from the French:)Fr. Georges Frenaud, OSB. ESTUDIO CRITICO SOBRE EL PENSAMIENTO FILOSOFICO Y RELIGIOSO DEL PADRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN (Madrid: Editions SPEIRO)...excellent critique; In English, there I can refer you to two brief studies which are good overviews: Monsignor Leo S. Schumacher. THE TRUTH ABOUT TEILHARD (New York; Twin Cities, 1968) Msgr. Schumacher had been Dean of Philosophy of Borromeo Seminary, Cleveland. I am not certain where this study may be obtained today...Tan Books? "Keep the Faith"? Fr. G. H. Duggan, S.M. TEILHARDISM AND THE FAITH (Cork, Ireland: Mercier Press, 1968). This is an excellent, more detailed critique. I'm not certain if it is still available. My Spanish mentor, the late Professor Rafael Gambra, left behind several excellent critical studies of Teilhard (and Maritain). The Spanish Traditionalist review, VERBO, has published numerous critiques of Teilhard and his influence on contemporary religion. Again, the language is Spanish, which may not help....many of those same studies had been published originally in French (by writers such as Louis Jugnet, M.L. Guerard des Lauriers, OP, Alexis Curvers, etc. I don't know if translations exist for any of them. Also, you might look up the 1962 "monitum" warning against Teilhard, issued by the Vatican Congregation for the Holy Office [now Doctrine of the Faith]. I think there were critical studies also in the old American Ecclesistical Review (prior to 1965), under the editorship of Msgr. Francis Connell, and certainly elsewhere. Most of my references are dated because it was in the late 1960s and the 1970s that I read about Teilhard and read criticism of him. Best wishes..... Sent at: 2008 11 23