http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,424942,00.html
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Auletta appeared to be referring to stories about fundamentalist churches that maintain a literal interpretation of the Bible, including the belief that the world was created in six days.
Monsignor Gianfranco Ravasi told reporters that: "One thing is sure. Evolution is not incompatible with faith."
"Creationism from a strictly theological view makes sense, but when it is used in scientific fields it becomes useless," Ravasi said.
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As mentioned in the article this isn't the first time the Vatican has endorsed Evolution but nevertheless this is a major step.
As a baptised Catholic, but not practising, it is really nice to see that the Catholic religion seems to be progressing, when for many years US Protestants were scared of Catholocism and its backwardsness. If only the 70 million scary ass evengelical fanatics could start to move in this direction we might get somewhere. That and if Islam would accept evolution formally too, but I think they've got to work on quite a bit of local (read: Middle East) turmoil before they do so.
Either way it is always very refreshing to read these types of stories as it is usually the religious fanatics that make headlines by banning evolution etc.