Visionary Teilhard de Chardin was a man of contradictions upon contradictions. He was a Jesuit priest who accepted Darwinian evolution and played a role in the discovery of Peking man. He was a ...

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a person of many gifts who made a significant contribution at the interface of faith and reason as a Jesuit priest, mystic, theologian and scientist, and as an exile and ...

Naming Jesuit Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin a doctor of the church — or at least removing the "warning" from his writings — would give the Jesuit scientist and philosopher more legitimacy in the ...

During his lifetime (1881-1955), Jesuit Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin achieved a professional reputation as a distinguished paleontologist and one of the discoverers of Peking man. Since the ...

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a priest trained in geology and paleontology, was part of the 1929 team that discovered "Peking Man" — a pre-human skull that helped introduce homo erectus to the world.

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in America on March 28. 2005. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J., died 50 years ago in New York City. At the time, he was widely recognized in U.S.

Given the research and subsequent discussions of Teilhard’s connection to eugenics over the past few years, I was hopeful that the essay America published on the centennial of Teilhard de Chardin, S.J ...

After Bishop Michael Bruce Curry delivered his sermon at today’s wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, many observers around the world wondered, as one headline put it, “Who was the Jesuit priest ...

The De Chardin Project, a thoughtful new play made exquisite thanks to sensitive, soulful direction by Alan Dilworth, aims to find the missing link between religion and science. Playwright Adam ...