And I am another one. If you consider that Adam and Eve were created in a state far more perfect than our inherited fallen nature it seems to me that man must have devolved from that point, if anything.
"For the record I am also a Catholic who is totally opposed to the ideology of macro-evolution."
I don't have the reference, but the Church has placed an anathema on anyone who claims that Adam and Eve were not the first parents of the human race. The religion of evolution flies in the face of this, and honest scientists are debunking evolution as utter nonsense. As one scientist has written, the odds of evolution happening and humans coming as a result are about the same as a tornado going through a junkyard and assembling a 747.
If there was no Adam and Eve, there was no Original Sin. If there was no Original Sin, there was no need for a Redeemer. No Redeemer, no crucifixion, no Mass.