Has the pope gone mad?

[FatAndFaithless]

Who's doing the spinning? If he actually thinks the things that people try to assert he thinks, he could easily come out and flatly say it. Again, the vatican's view on evolution has been in place for years and years now, this isn't some Franciscan innovation. He's coming out and saying it now (something that has been established for years) because his papacy is a PR juggernaut, and mentioning a scientific theory that a 5th grader should understand somehow gains him points in public favor.

And I don't like the "he's not as bad as previous popes" argument. I'm not going to lower my standards just because we're dealing with Catholics, especially since he hasn't done dick to change anything in Catholic dogma.