You seem to have been driven out by one person who was not a member of a religious teaching order. You don't seem to have been driven out by the church's teachings, but by someone's attitude.
However, the fact of belief in Evolution amongst a majority of at least western Catholics has to be accepted, and must lie in part with the cleavage which occurred at the Reformation. This division has allowed the terrible situation to arise in which, especially in recent years, the literal truth of the first chapters of Genesis has been disregarded by many in the Church.