In the popular imagination, historical relations between the Roman Catholic Church and modern science are best epitomized in the case of Galileo Galilei. This work is the general history of the reactions of the RCC to developments in the natural sciences Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Don O'Leary is professionally qualified in the disciplines of science and history and is currently employed in scientific research at the Biosciences Institute at University College Cork Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	xi
1 From Galileo to Darwin	1
Galileo's Exegesis	1
New Interpretations	5
Geology and Revelation	9
Darwin	16
2 Religion and Science in Victorian Britain	19
Conflict-Real and Imaginary	19
Anti-Catholicism and Science	23
Huxley and Tyndall	26
Tyndall's Belfast Address and the Irish Catholic Bishops	31
Catholicism and Evolutionary Theory in the English-Speaking World	39
Agnosticism and Religious Revival	42
3 A Church under Siege	45
Pope Pius IX and the Syllabus of Errors	45
The First Vatican Council	54
The Biblical Question: Inspiration and Error	58
Providentissimus Deus	68
4 Defensive Strategies	73
Scientific Objections to Darwin's Theory	73
Mivart's Hypothesis	78
Mivart versus the Darwinians	82
Catholics and Scientific Freedom	85
5 The Suppression of the Mivartian Hypothesis	94
Leroy and Zahm	94
Bonomelli and Hedley	100
The Excommunication of Mivart	103
The Joint Pastoral-Prelude to Antimodernism	108
6 Antimodernism	113
The Antimodernist Crusade	113
In Fear of Error	120
The Pontifical Biblical Commission	124
Dorlodot-Defender of Darwin	126
7 Catholicism and Science in the Interwar Years	129
Salvation and Science-A Conflict of Interests?	129
Messenger's Hypothesis	133
The Pontifical Academy of Sciences	140
8 Pope Pius XII and the New Theology	144
Nouvelle Theologie	144
Messenger's Sequel	146
Humani Generis	149
The Aftermath of Humani Generis	153
Cosmology and God	159
9 Science, Faith, and the Second Vatican Council	167
Evolution and Genesis	167
Aggiornamento	171
Religion versus Science?	177
Science, Sex, and Theology	182
10 Pope John Paul II's Philosophy of Science and Faith	190
The Reopening of the Galileo Case	190
John Paul's Philosophy of Science	193
Critical Responses to the New View from Rome	198
Galileo and Darwin Reviewed	203
Intelligent Design or Contingency?	207
A Hidden God	218
11 Bioethics	221
Donum Vitae	221
New Frontiers	232
12 Reflections	244
In Search of God	244
Dissonance or Consonance?	251
Notes	260
Bibliography	319
Index	343

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