An article in LA CROIX on June 3, 2015 quotes Pierre Teilhard: “The deacon of Digne goes further.” Man’s mission is to make the biosphere a noosphere ,”he launches, using the word created by the Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to designate the ” sphere of human thought , the third in a succession of phases of Earth’s development, after the geosphere (inanimate matter) and the biosphere (biological life).”

Read the whole article:  http://www.la-croix.com/Actualite/France/Chretiens-et-ecologie-la-place-de-l-homme-dans-la-Creation-2015-06-03-1319085