Curious that they omit that St. Thomas said otherwise.


Footnote 2 from the article where you take the quote says this regarding it: "Although the Magisterium has never ruled definitively on the question of animal death before the Fall, St. Augustine is the only Church Father whose writings on Genesis have been preserved who believed that animals practiced carnivory before the Fall.  All of the other Fathers held that animal death did not begin until after the Original Sin."

Yes, I read the footnote. Don't you find it curious that they omit mentioning the Angelic Doctor here?

Where exactly is it that St. Thomas says otherwise?

In the opinion of some, those animals which now are fierce and kill others, would, in that state [of innocence], have been tame, not only in regard to man, but also in regard to other animals. But this is quite unreasonable. For the nature of animals was not changed by man's sin, as if those whose nature now it is to devour the flesh of others, would then have lived on herbs, as the lion and falcon. Nor does Bede's gloss on Genesis 1:30 say that trees and herbs were given as food to all animals and birds, but to some. Thus there would have been a natural antipathy between some animals. They would not, however, on this account have been excepted from the mastership of man: as neither at present are they for that reason excepted from the mastership of God, Whose Providence has ordained all this. Of this Providence man would have been the executor, as appears even now in regard to domestic animals, since fowls are given by men as food to the trained falcon.

Thank you!

So we agree the Kolbe center teaches contrary to St. Thomas, and does not say so.
This is not from some obscure work of St. Thomas, nor a comment in an unrelated part of the Summa. This is from the part of the Summa on creation. This is something any moderately informed Catholic should know before writing about creation.

Either they knew, or the didn't. If they didn't, they should have, as I argued above.

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Pope Pius XII did a dangerous thing when he left open the door for Catholics to believe in evolution.
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The bottom line is that evolution always has as its primary goal, to undermine the dogma of original sin.