Isn't it funny...

[Pat Mustard]

CL's understanding is right in line with Catholic doctrine.

Well....now.

It didn't start off that way...........

On the Origin of Species was published in 1859, during the papacy of Pope Pius IX, who defined dogmatically papal infallibility during the First Vatican Council in 1869–70. The council has a section on "Faith and Reason" that includes the following on science and faith:
On God the Creator, the Vatican Council was very clear. The definitions preceding the "anathema" (as a technical term of Catholic theology, let him be "cut off" or excommunicated, cf. Galatians 1:6–9; Titus 3:10–11; Matthew 18:15–17) signify an infallible doctrine of the Catholic Faith (De Fide):
On God the creator of all things

1. If anyone denies the one true God, creator and lord of things visible and invisible: let him be anathema.
   

In 1870 that church would have tied her to a stake and lit the fire if they thought they could get away with it!  It didn't change until 1950.

Pope Pius XII's encyclical of 1950, Humani generis, was the first encyclical to specifically refer to evolution, and took up a neutral position, again concentrating on human evolution:

The Church does not forbid that ... research and discussions, on the part of men experienced in both fields, take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter.

Such is the "universal" and "unchanging" word of god!

Only for the Nazi pope fucking off and retiring with his harem of altar-boys I wouldn't be surprised if he would try to turn the rcc back to creatardism. A lot of his pronouncements on science and especially evolution only differed from Ham's in the accent they were delivered in.