Magisterial Teachings on Origins

Overview

What is the authoritative teaching of the Catholic Church on Creation? Episode Four demonstrates that the Magisterium, or teaching authority, of the Catholic Church has consistently taught that God created all things for mankind at the beginning of time, less than ten thousand years ago, by fiat creation; and that human death, deformity and disease were not part of God's original creation but are the result of the Original Sin of Adam and the subsequent sins of mankind.