Brother James Lockman, new director of the Mission Saint Luis Rey, says his new mission home, where he arrived in May, is a great place to live out his passion for botany and the teachings of St. Francis, founder of the Roman Catholic religious order that runs the mission.
"I found I had a natural affinity with the Franciscans because I have the same relationship with nature," he said, adding that St. Francis is the patron saint of ecology as well as of animals. "Evolution has never been an issue for Catholics. There is no fundamental contradiction. The problem comes when the words of Scripture are taken literally, and that wasn't the genre in which they were written." Read the full story in the San Diego area North County Times.
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