1. “The critical teaching of the Church is that God infuses souls into man- regardless of what process he might have used to create our physical bodies. Science, can never identify for us “the moment of this transition into the spiritual” – that is a matter exclusively with the magesterium of religion.”
Message delivered to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences 22 October 1996

2. Published in the Catholic Herald
“The Big Bang, which is today posited as the origin of the world, does not contradict the divine act of creation; rather, it requires it”, he stated. Similarly, he argued, “evolution of nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation because evolution pre-supposes the creation of beings which evolve.”
Published in the Catholic Herald
31 October 2014