A careful analysis of Teilhard de Chardin's views, as a scientist and as a Christian, on two important problems in the world today: the problem of love and the problem of suffering. Does science objectively encounter love? In a Teilhardian critique of the true meaning of matter, the author answers in the affirmative and demonstrates how science arrives at love in the world -- a love that logically leads to the Christian faith. Is the Christianity of Teilhard a Christianity without the cross? The author shows the entire work of Teilhard de Chardin illuminated by the shadow of the cross. Teilhard's every thought as a scientist living within the mystery of the cross -- is marked by that mystery, which he urges us to look for within the Church in order better to understand it. For Teilhard, the problem of evil is in reality an expression of love and a principle of union between God and mankind.