Queen Elizabeth II opens a session of the Parliament of Canada in Ontario with Prince Philip at her side. Britain's reigning monarch is also Canada's head of state, a government structure left over from when the region was under British rule, and the queen has visited Canada more than any other country during her reign.
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Meet the Scientist in Michael Curry's Royal Wedding Sermon
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin studied evolution, viewed consciousness as a mystic force, and waxed poetic on the "energies of love."
The British royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle arguably reached its apex on the soaring rhetoric of the Most Reverend Michael Curry, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church whose sermon included a riff on love and fire that referenced—of all things—a scientist.
“The late French Jesuit, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, was at once a scientist, a Roman Catholic priest, a theologian, a true mystic,” said Curry in his sermon. “He suggested that the discovery and harnessing of fire was one of the great technological discoveries of human history.”
“In light of this, de Chardin said that if human beings ever harness the energies of love, then for the second time in the history of the world,
