Question: Do you no longer believe in the creation story in Genesis?
Answer: I read Genesis in the way that the Catholic Church has directed her children to read it. The Church indicates that Genesis 1 is meant to teach us important dogmas of faith, but is not meant to teach us science. Here is a summary of what we are held to believe and what we are not held to believe.
What Catholics are held to believe from Genesis 1-3- There is one God, outside of the universe, who created that universe from nothing, such that it had a beginning in time.
- God created man directly and Eve was formed from Adam.
- Monogenism – the entire human race has a single set of first parents.
- Our first parents were created in a state of original justice, with gifts of integrity and immortality.
- They fell from that state by sin and the wound of their sin was communicated to the entire human race.
What Catholics are not held to believe from Genesis 1-3- the universe is a certain age, the Earth is a certain age, the human race is a certain age.
- the universe developed in a certain way
This is why Cardinal Ruffini, a staunchly orthodox Cardinal at Vatican II, wrote the following in his book
The Theory of Evolution Judged by Reason and Faith:
"God could very well reveal (and who doubts it?) in what order and in what time He made the various things appear in the world; but in His inscrutable wisdom He preferred to leave such questions to human research."
The above 'Catholic teaching,' is what I call POST-GALILEO 'teaching,' whose history can now be understood by way of long study and docuмentation that came available from the Vatican in the 20th century. It is without doubt the dogma of Modernism, for if the bible can be made comply with fraud and lies, then so too can any other teaching be brought up to date.
When popes were conned into believing what the Fr Robinsons of the 18th and 19th century were telling them SCIENCE had proven about the universe, there was a Galilean Reformation within the Church. The Bible reveals a moving sun. This was the reading and belief of all the Fathers. To them THEOLOGY WAS THE QUEEN OF SCIENCES. That the sun moved around the Earth was a REVELATION OF SCRIPTURE. Revelation in Scripture is infallible teaching, no matter what it REVEALS, whether it is the Virgin Birth or that it was water and not milk that Jesus turned into wine. Now the Council of Trent, called by the Church that accepted the geocentrism revealed in Scripture, decreed that any Scriptural revelation held by all the Fathers must be held by Catholics even though "interpretations of this kind were never intended to be brought to light."
From 1741 to 1835, churchmen and philosophers began to believe science had proven the FATHERS GOT IT WRONG. After 1835 when the last heliocentric book was taken off the index and Rome ordered all who deny the earth moves around a fixed sun WERE TO BE PUNISHED, the "teaching" of the Church had to undergo a REFORMATION with regard to the Scriptures and their new found QUEEN OF SCIENCE, ie., Galileoism.
The history of this reformation is now known. Because of the LIE that the Fathers, popes and theologians up to 1741 supposedly got the geocentric wrong, the 'teaching "the Bible is not meant to teach us science,' as Fr Robinson repeats above, became a "teaching of the Catholic Church.' Well now, this new teaching let loose an army of biblical reformists, hitting on anything in the Bible that smacked of 'science.' Noah's Flood became a local flood with Noah and his big Ark that took a 100 years to build floating on a LAKE. Genesis was likewise dismissed as a story made up for religious purpose. In response to this attack on every 'scientific' aspect of Scripture Pope Leo XIII wrote the first Encyclical trying to stop the ROT. He said every word of the Bible was truth. But then he had to address the hidden Galileo reformation and address that infamous biblical U-turn of 1741 to 1835. In went the infamous paragraph, never mentioned Galileo, but undermined every word he had written (if he did write that encyclical). Accordingly, all one had to do was quote Leo XIII on Galileo and it was reinterpret at will.
And that is why 27 years later Pope Benedict XV had to write another encyclical on biblical interpretation. This work was magnificent, never gave an inch to science, and reiterated the Bible is true in every word it says. But the Fr Robinsons still quoted Leo XIII and carried on with Lemaitre and his Big Bang creative act. Finally, Pope Pius XII, a public Big Bang believer, in a third encyclical, bowed down to the Galilean Reformation and opened the Bible up to modern science.
The flock could now believer any idiotic and imbicilic theory of science and still call themselves Catholic. THEOLOGY AS THE QUEEN OF SCIENCE no longer prevails in the Catholic Church. Then the heliocentrists of Vatican II took over, with their Big bang and their other worlds. The Church is now an EMPTY SHELL of its pre-Galilean Reformation, and it all came from WITHIN, just as Fr Robinson's MINIMAL CATHOLIC BELIEF ABOVE SHOWS.