verdugo:
I stand with Pope John Paul II and now Pope Benedict XVI. Fatima, like Lourdes, etc, is private revelation and has always been seen as such and can not ever supercede public revelation which ended with the death of the Apostle St. John.
Evolution is a scientific theory that explains how biological changes occur and adapt. There is nothing wrong with it as a scientific theory and that is what it is, it can’t answer how something came into being from nothing, that is where philosophy and theology point to God creating the world from nothing ,which is what the Creeds affirm, I believe in God the Father almighty creator of Heaven and earth and all things seen and unseen. Evolution does not nor can it ever explain that and to pit those two together is intellectually stupid, in my view.
The Historical critical method is not my favorite methodology fo Scripture exegesis but it was given Papal approval to be used in the study of scripture. The problem with it is that many Biblical scholars have taken this approach and separated from the Doctrine of the Church, Creeds and the Patristic Consensus, etc and on that not, Pope Benedict XVI in his book Jesus of Nazareth Volume 1 and 2 has criticized.
For the record, these Papal Documents all called for the Historical Critical Method to be used as a complement to the other methodologies when studying the Sacred Scriptures:
1. Pope Leo XIII: Encyclical Letter On the Study of Sacred Scripture, Providentissimus Deus, 1893
2. Pope Benedict XV: Encyclical Letter Commemorating the Fifteenth Centenary of the Death of St. Jerome,
Spiritus Paraclitus, 1920
3. Pope Pius XII: Encyclical Letter Promoting Biblical Studies, Divino Afflante Spiritu, 1943
Verdugo, please not that all 3 of these documents occurred before Vatican II.
CTrent1564 answered: I stand with Pope John Paul II and now Pope Benedict XVI. Fatima, like Lourdes, etc, is private revelation
Verdugo asks: That does not answer my question above. Please respond to my question.