The prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith did not mince his words. “I apologise if this seems blunt,” Cardinal Gerhard Müller told the presidency of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) in a speech last month. “The fundamental theses of ‘conscious evolution’ are opposed to Christian revelation and, when taken unreflectively, lead almost necessarily to fundamental errors … ”Conscious evolution – a theory that human beings can choose how they evolve – is a topic that has interested the LCWR with one of the theory’s proponents, Barbara Marx Hubbard, addressing its assembly on the topic two years ago. Next month, Sr Ilia Delio, a Franciscan sister and an academic at Georgetown University in Wa