its official Church of Catholicism stuff. No Catholic can now deny it, and Popes of the future can never change it. I think getting evolution due to luck and chance is absurd. How does the Bible work with evolution? What’s literal and what isn’t? In Catholic beliefs?
Evolution is not due to luck, chance, nor the Pope's approval. Whether the Pope endorses evolution is his problem.
Evolution is due to natural laws, natural processes and the proper environment.
I do not believe the Pope mandated the 'belief in evolution.' I have to check exactly what he said concerning science, evolution and cosmology..
The Roman Church varied over time on their view on science, but about 1950 thing did begin to change.
Evolution and the Catholic Church - Wikipedia
In the 1950
encyclical Humani generis,
Pope Pius XII confirmed that there is no intrinsic conflict between
Christianity and the theory of evolution, provided that Christians believe that God created all things and that the individual
soul is a
direct creation by
God and not the product of purely material forces.
[1] Today, the Church supports
theistic evolution(ism), also known as
evolutionary creation,
[2] although Catholics are free not to believe in any part of evolutionary theory.
The Catholic Church holds no official position on the theory of creation or evolution, leaving the specifics of either theistic evolution or literal creationism to the individual within certain parameters established by the Church. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, any believer may accept either literal or
special creation within the period of an actual six-day, twenty-four-hour period, or they may accept the belief that the earth evolved over time under the guidance of God.
Catholicism holds that God initiated and continued the process of his evolutionary creation and that all humans, whether specially created or evolved, have and have always had specially created souls for each individual.
[3][4]
In the 1950
encyclical Humani generis,
Pope Pius XII confirmed that there is no intrinsic conflict between
Christianity and the theory of evolution, provided that Christians believe that God created all things and that the individual
soul is a
direct creation by
God and not the product of purely material forces.
[1] Today, the Church supports
theistic evolution(ism), also known as
evolutionary creation,
[2] although Catholics are free not to believe in any part of evolutionary theory.
The Catholic Church holds no official position on the theory of creation or evolution, leaving the specifics of either theistic evolution or literal creationism to the individual within certain parameters established by the Church. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, any believer may accept either literal or
special creation within the period of an actual six-day, twenty-four-hour period, or they may accept the belief that the earth evolved over time under the guidance of God.
Catholicism holds that God initiated and continued the process of his evolutionary creation and that all humans, whether specially created or evolved, have and have always had specially created souls for each individual.
[3][4].
. . . which added a little wish to the wash fo the official version.
The
Catechism of the Catholic Church (1994, revised 1997) on faith, evolution and science states:
159. Faith and science: "... methodical research in all branches of knowledge, provided it is carried out in a truly scientific manner and does not override moral laws, can never conflict with the faith, because the things of the world and the things of faith derive from the same God. The humble and persevering investigator of the secrets of nature is being led, as it were, by the hand of God in spite of himself, for it is God, the conserver of all things, who made them what they are." (Vatican II GS 36:1)
283. The question about the origins of the world and of man has been the object of many scientific studies which have splendidly enriched our knowledge of the age and dimensions of the cosmos, the development of life-forms and the appearance of man. These discoveries invite us to even greater admiration for the greatness of the Creator, prompting us to give him thanks for all his works and for the understanding and wisdom he gives to scholars and researchers....
284. The great interest accorded to these studies is strongly stimulated by a question of another order, which goes beyond the proper domain of the natural sciences. It is not only a question of knowing when and how the universe arose physically, or when man appeared, but rather of discovering the meaning of such an origin....