The Catholic Church has never believed in a literal translation of the Bible.
I agree, at least when I went to Catholic school in the '40s and '50s that was the case. Darwin was accepted as not in conflict with the Bible. We were taught that God created everything but worked within the laws of nature and science that He created. We also learned that the Bible was full of metaphors that could be applied to life today. If we took everything literally, they were simply strange miracles of the time and had no real application today.
"The Catholic Church has never believed in a literal translation of the Bible."
Yes, otherwise they would not disregard Jesus' command to "call NO man your father."
The very basis of the theory of evolution is chance, and the understanding of God as the creator means that all of creation had a conscious plan and design - and purpose -(and I'm not even talking literal Biblical creationism, to which I do not adhere), so the two are mutually exclusive.
To say that God is the creator, and evolution is true, is to be either a glaring hypocrite, stupid, or a liar.
Since their whole raison d'etre is based on de-literalizing messianic prophecies, how could they be otherwise?