The perfessor is, naturally enough, from the University of Bologna. Whichever liberal editor was responsible for this nonsense will be presenting an alleged descendant of the apes perfessor at a University of Liverwurst or Head Cheese or some such.
I know you are not Catholic but I do strongly recommend that you read something with actual authority which lays down the actual Catholic doctrines on this and much else. Pope St. Pius X (not to be confused with the excommunicated Marcellian whackos who have the brazen nerve to invoke his name) issued a Syllabus of Errors (Lamentabile Sane) in July, 1907 and then a related encyclical letter (Pascendi Domenici Gregis) in August, 1907, both attacking "Modernism" which he described as the synthesis of all heresies. Our separated brethren in Christ reference the same phenomenon as "Secular Humanism." Pius X was very clear that man is not descended from apes. He held a much higher position in the Church than this perfessor of or from Bologna even before Pius X being canonized as a saint (the only pope so canonized in the last 300+ years). Whatever you may reject of his documents you will find areas of agreement as well. For example, he wrote that Scripture was, word-for-word, cover-to-cover the inerrant Word of God. Easily readable and very reasonably priced copies of those documents are available from the Daughters of St. Paul in Boston. Enjoy!
Glad to hear from you.
You are correct...there are more political ins and outs related to Vatican watching than I can ever hope to understand.
I like inerrant from cover to cover, and I really don't think I have an ancestor common with the apes. (Unless it was my great uncle Joe....:>)
So he is really full of bologna? Sorry, bad pun.