Paleontologist and theologian, the influence of his father woke him early the sense to observe nature. In 1899 he entered the Jesuit novitiate at Aix en Provence, where his philosophical, theological and spiritual formation begins. Between 1908 and 1912 he studied theology at the University of Hastings, a period in which you make the first synthesis of his scientific, philosophical and theological light of knowledge evolution. The reading of Creative Evolution of Henri Bergson meant for him "the catalyst of a fire which devoured his heart and spirit." In 1911 he was ordained priest. In 1926 he is forced to leave teaching at the Catholic Institute of Paris and continue his geological research in China. After World War II he returned to France, resumed his contacts with the intellectual world and is elected member of the Academy of Sciences. In 1951 he settled in New York, where he dies on Easter 1955 Author of a vast work, in life he was practically impossible to collect the necessary authorization to publish religious writings in outlining his philosophical-religious vision. The posthumous publication of his books to a heated debate has led. In this same Editorial Anthem have been published Universe (3rd 2004), and What I think (2005), veritable compendium of his spiritual legacy.
