Monday, July 29
Saint Ignatius College Prep - McLaughlin Theatre
The 2-hour PBS documentary on Teilhard de Chardin also features his Jesuit colleague, Rev. Pierre Leroy.
It turns out that Fr. Leroy lived at 1076 W. Roosevelt--another reason for SICP to host a screening! This could be a double "homecoming" as filmmaker Frank Frost was a Jesuit scholastic at SICP in the 1960s (and moderator of the film club).
The time is right to introduce Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to a new generation – the man, the paleontologist, the visionary French Jesuit priest, whose relentless effort to reframe his beliefs in the light of evolution led to a paradigm shift in the relationship of science and religion. His vision has become manifest today through the emergence of the internet, globalization, and today’s transhumanism movement, although he was perhaps overly optimistic in his hopes. His legacy includes a strong environmental movement, an understanding of the Divine that resonates with science, and multiple movements in cosmic spirituality. Teilhard de Chardin was cited in Laudato Si! the encyclical of Pope Francis on the environment.