Catholic vs. Judaism

My Worldview as a Catholic believer.

Aline Natalino

CHR 305 – OL 5 2012

The Catholic worldview faith and beliefs allows me to understand society, the world, my purpose in life, and helps me make critical decisions that will shape my future. It gives me a better understanding of the world as a whole by looking into the different scientific disciplines, philosophies and religions. In particular, the Catholic worldview doesn’t seclude me from questioning religion and therefore manage the complexity and often change of the world around me.

When one is asked, “where did you come from?” it could lead to an multiple answers that will be all correct, because I can say biologically I came to exist when my father’s sperm fertilized my mother’s egg or I can say that I came from Brazil; the fifth largest country in the World and the only South America country that speaks Portuguese, but religiously I’m allow to think deeper and that is why I trust in a Theistic Evolution. I believe a man evolved from the Apes; "pre-existing living matter"; but God created the spiritual soul, because He made the regulations of the universe, so that they will produce the human body through natural processes. The Pope John Paul II, drew the academicians' attention to "The magisterium of the Church is directly interested in the question of evolution because this touches upon the concept of man, ... created in the image and likeness of God. ... Pius XII underlined this essential point: 'if the origin of the human body is sought in living matter which existed before it, the spiritual soul is directly created by God.' Consequently, the theories of evolution; which as a result of...