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approval as authoritatively binding by Pope Saint Pius X in 1907 (Praestantia Scripturae) until that authority was rescinded by Pope Saint Paul VI in 1971 (Sedula Cura).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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They [young men] should realize that this quotation from Cicero applies in a certain sense to them: “It is not…so great a distinction to know Latin as it is a disgrace not to know it.”
Pope Saint John Paul II, Address (27 November 1978)
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Thoughts on purgatory: one of the popes described it as an instant of purification while other sources (and even the Blessed Mother) have described it as more temporal.
What if the duration of purgatory is both? It’s instantaneous for the souls that trust in God’s mercy, so that they feel they were taken right into heaven and the flames or purgation were thought to be the pain of death, whereas those who do not trust so completely endure until however long God’s Justice demands. Thoughts?
Sorry it took me four literal years to answer your ask.
Obligatory I am not a theologian, but I've always believed it takes an amount of time proportional to how much and how bad the sins that still need remission are. Maybe @catholicapothecary has a more definitive answer?
You are correct and in agreement with Saint Thomas:
Supplementum Appendix I Article VIII
I don’t think one can licitly hold to an instantaneous purgatory, not on the authority of Saint Thomas but on the authority of Pope Innocent IV’s profession of faith to the Armenians wherein he says:
We ask if you have believed and now believe that there is a purgatory to which depart the souls of those dying in grace who have not yet completed satisfaction for their sins. Also, if you have believed and now believe that they will be tortured by fire for a time and that as soon as they are cleansed, even before the day of judgement, they may come to the true and eternal beatitude which consists in the vision of God face to face in love.
DS 1066-67
It also just doesn’t make sense holistically for the doctrine of purgatory itself for it to be instantaneous, in my opinion. Especially based on the mystic tradition surrounding the topic.
