Wonderful news!  Our EMMY-nominated film, Teilhard: Visionary Scientist,is set to screen at the Vatican Film Library theater, on April 20, 2026.  It’s co-hosted by two major Vatican Dicasteries (departments), and notable dignitaries will be in attendance.  

Additional screenings the same week will also be held at the Jesuit Generalate and at the Gregorian University.  These screenings are occurring 100 years to the month when Teilhard embarked on his 20-year exile to China. That exile would be followed by another to New York City, where he died on Easter, 1955.  

We know you rejoice with us in this long-awaited recognition of Teilhard and his vision!  We’ll keep you informed.  In the meantime, if you would like to be part of this in prayer and support, learn more at this link.

“Science if finally catching up with Teilhard de Chardin” is the headlline of an article in the August 2025 issue of The Christian Century about the documentary, TEILHARD: Visionary Scientist. Among other points, Jessica Mesman’s interview with filmmakers Frank and Mary Frost connects today’s scientific and technological advances, including AI, with Teilhard’s own work, seeing that connection as “eerily prophetic.” This is no surprise to the film’s producer’s, however, who have always seen Teilhard as a true visionary. Read the full interview at this link.

This month of July marks the 100^th anniversary of The Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee.  A high school teacher in that city, John Thomas Scopes was accused of violating the state’s Butler Act, which made it illegal to teach human evolution in any public school or university.  Also in July 1925, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin faced his own trial over the same subject.  Although knowing that all of the scientific evidence supported evolution on a cosmic scale, Teilhard also had a deep love for both Christ and the Church.  And so, in July 1925, after a week’s retreat and reflection, Teilhard signed a document, demanded by his Jesuit superiors, repudiating his writings on original sin and evolution. He was removed from teaching, was forbidden to publish anything on religion, and was exiled to China.

Though differing “trials” in some ways – The Scopes Trial was about the legality of teaching evolution, while Teilhard’s case centered on the theological implications of evolution – both mark one hundred years of a seemingly never-ending cultural struggle between science and religious belief.  That struggle persists to this day.

Learn more about this period in the life of this French Jesuit priest and scientist in the PBS documentary TEILHARD: Visionary Scientist. Stream it on the free PBS app (download at https://bit.ly/DownloadPBSApp), or use PBS Passport. Or use this direct link, https://to.pbs.org/3R89ycC, available to international viewers as well. See these resources for more information on Teilhard and evolution.