RE: Catholics will have a problem with this as they view Genesis as symbolic.
How does that work?
I’m sure Catholics ( the devout ones at least ) believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.
If Genesis is symbolic, then Jesus’ statement about marriage, which refers to Genesis, can be taken as symbolic as well.
“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female, and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh? So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.” — Matthew 19:4-6
Then we have the genealogy of Jesus mentioned in the gospel of Luke, which traces Jesus’ ancestry all the way to Adam.
Those are symbolic too?
How can it be when it starts with His LITERAL father, Joseph?
I have no problem with reading Genesis as literal text. In fact, I believe it happened just as recorded. God created everything in six 24 hour days. The Hebrew backs that up.
Do you believe that Jesus literally turned the bread and wine into His body and blood?
Regarding your quote from Jesus, Catholics do not believe in divorce and remarriage. Catholics also interpret this literally, unlike most Protestants.
But we Catholic are allowed to interpret some passages symbolically. The moral messages of the creation story in Genesis we must believe in of course. This includes believing we were made in God’s image and likeness, that God created the world ex nihilo (from nothing), that marriage is only between a man and a woman, and so on. We also must believe that there was an original man whom we all descended from and an original woman whom we also descended from.
But if the seven days was poetic language and exactly how God created the first man and woman, we can believe in evolution or not.
Hope this helps!
His Earthly stepfather, since He is the Son of God.