So then, God cannot create the universe, get it started and have it inevitably produce the result He wants? You stated earlier that this is not what you are claiming, but your last response certainly seems to imply that God could not have done so.
As for God’s free will, I certainly don’t deny that God can miraculously intervene whenever He wishes. That’s irrelevant to the point. The point is whether or not He actually did so, especially regarding the physical universe. My contention was simply that God could have set things up so that they ended up the way He wanted them to. Since that’s the case, there would have been no need for Him to tinker with His creation. That would be true until humans with their free will developed. Once that occurs, tinkering might well be necessary because we haven’t behaved in the way God wants us to.
As to Vatican I, again I find it irrelevant both because Vatican I is a human construct, and therefore prone to error, and because it’s condemning something that I am not claiming anyway.
This is deism, or deterministic mechanism (as Cardinal Mercier calls it) and it is a false view of God and nature.