Did creation start with a “big bang”? What does the Catholic Church say about that? Have you ever wondered if the creation story in the book of Genesis is real? Are we supposed to take it literally and leave science behind?
No way! The Church is all about us using our faith and our reason. Just because science explains the natural world around us, doesn’t mean it disproves that God created the world.
Have you ever wondered why God made you male or female? Think about it . . . God could have made us “unisex” like that billboard I saw in the airport, but he made us two genders. Why?
Well if we want to understand why we were created, we have to look back to the one who created us – God. In the Book of Genesis we learn that . . .
Man lives more in the external world, because made from the earth and closest to it; it is his mission to rule over it and subject it. Woman lives more in the internal world, because she was created from an inner, human life.
Man is more interested in the outer world; woman in the inner world. Man talks about things; woman more about persons. Man fashions products of the earth; woman fashions life, having come from life, both Divine and human. Man, more related to the earth, makes sacrifices for things that are in the future and are abstract; woman, more related to the human, is more inclined to make sacrifices for persons and for that which is immediate.
Q: What is the Church’s stance on dinosaurs?
A: They’re extinct.
Q: Did Adam come from an ape?
A: In asking this question you actually have brought two issues that the Catholic Church has been dealing with in recent years.
What’s up with evolution? Did we come from monkeys? Olivia, Fr. J, and Greg Iwinski figure out if it matters how we got here.
