What exactly is your question? Do I or the Catholic Church believe in abiogenesis? The answer is a resounding No!. Do I or the Catholic Church believe that man is special and created in God's image with a soul, reason, and free will? The answer is a responding YES! Do I or the Catholic Church believe that God created the sciences and used them to bring forth life and the variety of life and used it to allow life to flourish in a dynamic environment? The answer is yes.
On these things the Church and I have been very clear.
So very true. The fact that the Catholic Church learned from mistakes made centuries ago, and has recognized that science is the study of God’s creation rather than something to be seen as in opposition to the truth - this is what led me to Christianity. I was raised in the Bible Belt surrounded by protestants and until I read the works of the great thinkers of the Church, all I knew of Christianity was sola scriptura and the pushing of ignorance. The fact is that pushing ignorance is contrary to Christianity.
And kudos to you for maintaining your charity in the face of these attacks on our faith. You are a better person than I, to be sure.
Created, yet at the same time evolved from something ‘less’. So, again, where in that evolutionary ladder did that spiritual immortal soul get endowed?