Whatever else may be said or written about Father Laisney and whatever crimes or misdemeanors he is actually guilty of or simply may have been found guilty of by the Supreme High Council of CathInfo, the fact remains that Father Laisney was plainly truthful in writing this
There is nothing against Faith to consider that the six days of creation are six periods of time, put in parallel with the week for many spiritual reasons.
and this
Note that Father Robinson does not support evolution.
about Father Robinson's book.
Yet despite his plainspokenness, Father Laisney has been accused of heresy and blasphemy and—most egregious of all—of failing to conform to what a man at the limit of his patience might call the "every mole is a melanoma" doctrine of CI's two principal theological
monstres sacrés of the present moment, Ladislaus and X. Least excusable of all, Father Laisney has been accused of supporting evolution
because he acknowledges as unstigmatized the scientific and theological admissibility of the Big Bang theory despite the fact that there is
no necessary connection whatsoever between the two theories and despite the even more obvious fact that nothing in what Father Laisney wrote supports this slander.
Must commenters really be reminded that "Bad, bad, bad people believe in evolution and the Big Bang" is not an argument that carries weight in law, science, or Christian doctrine? If, alas, they must, be so kind as to take this as that reminder. Almost everyone here would laugh derisively at someone who said that Wagner or vegetarianism was bad because Hitler liked it, but when the ox being gored is one's own, sense and decency rapidly become expendable hereabouts.