Here is a compilation of various resources for Catholics and other Christians to begin digging into the perennial beliefs regarding the historicity of the creation story laid out in the First Book of Moses. A lot of this was originally sourced by Gideon Lazar but I have tweaked some things and added imbedded links to all of the works cited. This is not a finished product and will continue to be a work in progress. I hope that people find this interesting and helpful.
Fathers and Doctors of the Church
Saint Theophilus of Antioch
Letter to Autocylus, Book II Chapters 10-32 (x)
Saint Irenaeus of Lyons
Adversus Haereses (specifically Book V Chapter 23)
Origen of Alexandria
Homilies on Genesis
Saint Victorinus
On the Creation of the World
Saint Ephraim the Syrian
Commentary on Genesis
Saint Basil the Great
Homilies on the Hexaemeron
Saint Gregory of Nyssa
On the Making of Man
Saint Ambrose of Milan
Hexaemeron, Paradise, and Cain and Abel
Saint John Chrysostomos
Homilies on Genesis
Saint Augustine
Confessions, Books XI and XII
On the Literal Interpretation of Genesis
City of God, Books XI-XVI
Selpicius Severus
Sacred History
Venerable Bede
The Reckoning of Time, Chapter 66
Saint John of Damascus
Exposition on the Orthodox Faith, Book II (x)
Saint Bonaventure
Breviloquium, Parts II and III
Collations in Hexaemeron
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologiae, Prima Pars Questions 44-46, 65-74, 90-92, and 102
Conciliar Magisterium
Council of Carthage (AD 419)
Canon 109
Fourth Lateran Council (AD 1215)
Confession of Faith
Council of Trent (AD 1545-1563)
Session IV, Decree concerning the use of the Sacred Books
Session V, On Original Sin
Professio Fidei
Catechism of Trent, On the Production of Man (pg 42)
Second Vatican Council (AD 1965)
Dei Verbum, Chapter III
Roman Martyrology
December 25th
Papal Magisterium
Pope Leo XIII
Arcanum Divinae, Paragraph 5
Providentissimus Deus
Pope Benedict XV
Spiritus Paraclitus
Pope Ven. Pius XII
Divino Afflante Spiritu
Humani Generis
Pope Saint John Paul II
Laborum Exercens, Chapter IV
Evangelium Vitae, Chapter 34-36
Pope Francis
Laudato Si, Paragraph 65-67
Pontifical Biblical Commission
The commission was granted explicit papal approval as authoritatively binding by Pope Saint Pius X in 1907 (Praestantia Scripturae) until that authority was rescinded by Pope Saint Paul VI in 1971 (Sedula Cura). The rescinding does not retroactively make the previous issued decrees non-binding but merely removes that prerogative from further decrees by the commission. Much of the decrees are only available in Latin and Italian but the first 50 years are in English here.
Miscellaneous
Fr. Chad Ripperger
The Metaphysical Impossibility of Human Evolution
Dr. Henry Morris
The Mathematical Impossibility of Evolution
Fr. Seraphim Rose
Genesis, Creation, and Early Man
Fr. Victor Warkulwiz
The Doctrines of Genesis
Drs. John Bergsma and Brant Pitre
A Catholic Introduction to the Bible: The Old Testament (I don’t have a PDF)
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For all things cannot be in men, because the son of man is not immortal, and they are delighted with the vanity of evil.
Sirach 17:29
The Tigurine version: and we delight in the vanity of vices. Here he gives the cause of that great mercy of God, namely the great misery of men, so that through it he may again attract men to the easy confession of sins and to hope of obtaining pardon from God's mercy, as if to say: Do not marvel that God's mercy is so great, because God knows that men are very fragile and prone to fall; therefore He easily has mercy on them when they repent after falling into sins, according to that saying of Psalm 102:13: "As a father has mercy on his children, so the Lord has had mercy on those who fear Him: for He Himself knows our frame."
Pray through the intercession of the Blessed Mother and for the sake of the Sacred Heart thine merit be restored and trust in Him who wishes to grant thee such graces that He shall hear and allow thy efforts to be restored to the ends He sought from them.
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the SSPX bishops will incur latae senteniae excommunication but Pope Leo will not revoke the faculties granted to the Society wrt marriage and reconciliation + nothing will be inflicted upon the priests nor the laity of the Society
it is very interesting that the Society is achieving their goal inadvertently, insofar as we are seeing the thrust of the Holy See in regards to potential separation from the Barque
What is SSPX? And what does their reported schism mean for the Catholic Church?
Society of Saint Pius X, priestly fraternity founded by Archbishop Lefebvre in order to safeguard the traditional form of the Roman Rite. They were excommunicated (sort of) in 1988 when +Lefebvre ordained bishops against the will of Pope Saint John Paul II. The excommunication was lifted in 2009 (i think?) by Benedict XVI and then Francis gave them more faculties for valid marriages and confession. The recent episcopal consecrations are going to be met with likely the same excommunications as in ‘88. I don’t know how it will shake out or if Leo XIV will revoke the faculties grantes by Francis. I doubt the latter. I think really the only thing that comes from this, in the short term, is that the four new bishops and the two previously existing bishops will receive the sanctions and the rest of the clergy and laity will remain in the same position as before. Which is to say basically fine from an objective point of view. Though the subjective dispositions of the Society members towards the Holy See and the Church at large is something that is probably problematic…but I can’t speak on the individual level obviously.
I wouldn’t really call it schism in the proper sense, and I disagree with a lot of what the NY bishop said in the letter I posted. But it is definitely a wound to the Body of Christ, causing more issues than it solves.
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I think you've mentioned that Bishop Lefebvre's consecrations of bishops against the wishes of the Holy See was a legitimate emergency situation that was maybe justified in a way that these new SSPX consecrations are not. Can you explain the difference pls?
I actually haven’t talked about that at all but, funnily enough, I do agree with that statement. Unless I am mistaken on the historical facts, which I am open to being corrected on. At the time of the ‘88 consecrations, +Lefebvre was the only bishop within the Society and he was extremely close to death. I think under those circumstances, one could make a legitimate argument for an emergency situation. I don’t really want to get into the weeds of positive necessity vs baseline unlawful activity but one can see the argument, generally, from the fact that +Lefebvre was going to die and the Society along with him. The situation today doesn’t even come close to that sort of gravity within the Society itself. They had two bishops who are both younger than the current pope and neither of them have health issues. I’ll borrow from Ethan here:
This situation in no way warranted an invocation of some emergency supplied jurisdiction.
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This attitude of the fathers is not shared by the children. These matters are quite weighty and bear on profound and fundamental questions of ecclesiology—and this is clearly comprehended by His Holiness and Fr. Pagliarani. They do not speak as men who fail to understand the gravity of the moment; their clear-sightedness also allows them to see the cherished concerns of the other and to genuinely sympathize with these concerns in their conversations.
Yet what has the discourse about the SSPX become among us? Nothing of this sort. When did His Holiness deride the Society as lacking all pastoral value? Far from it—His Holiness quite clearly recognized the many good qualities of the Society. When did Fr. Pagliarani speak disrespectfully of His Holiness or his predecessors? Never. On the contrary, Fr. Pagliarani spoke with great confidence on the basis of the paternal charity evident in Pope Leo XIV.
So where are we to go from here? With these consecrations and the inevitable excommunications, the break will last another generation. Will these sad realities make the words of His Holiness and Fr. Pagliarani any less true, or their examples any less imitable? On the contrary, it will make their behavior all the more relevant.
May we all become worthy children in imitating fathers such as these.
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