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Article: Thousands acclaim Jesuit's global vision: events at UN., elsewhere mark 50th anniversary of Teilhard's death.(SPECIAL REPORT)
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- April 22, 2005
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Many wondered aloud what he would make of it. In his lifetime, if people had heard of this priest at all, they probably had tripped over his long French name--Pierre Teilhard de Chardin--with the title paleontologist alongside it.
Paleontologist--one who studies rocks or at least life forms existing in past geologic periods. Not usual priestly work. But then this was no common cleric. There were other titles grouped against his long surname, shortened by most cognoscenti to "Teilhard." Among them: geologist, cosmologist, philosopher, mystic and Jesuit in all endeavors.
The priest, with a resume gathered long after he had been interred to the earth he so ...