Cardinal Muller's other big criticism involves a speaker that the LCWR invited to deliver the keynote address its annual meeting: Barbara Marx Hubbard, a Jew who is an atheist. Her address was about conscious evolution. Cardinal Muller is extremely agitated about the LCWR's interest in conscious evolution, which he negatively characterizes as supposedly "Gnosis." According to him, conscious evolution has also been discussed in the LCWR newsletter.
OK, it may have been a bit of a provocation of the hierarchs for the LCWR to invite Barbara Marx Hubbard to deliver the keynote address, because she is not a practicing Catholic. But she is not a heavyweight, to put it mildly.
I would like to point out to Cardinal Muller that conscious evolution is one central theme in the work of Walter J. Ong, S.J., whose work has never been censured by the Vatican. He is a heavyweight. For example, Ong even titled one of his books Interfaces of the Word: Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture (Cornell University Press, 1977).
So if Ong can publish as much stuff as he published in his lifetime about the evolution of consciousness without being criticized by the Vatican, what exactly is wrong about the LCWR discussing conscious evolution?
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