Well this new Pope has expressed a reversed Catholic view of evolution. Using the office, he has effectively silenced Catholic opposition and rebellion all over the globe. Maybe he will be a positive influence, but not one science-minded folk will like. After all, tyranny is tyranny, no matter what nice cultural revolution sounding name you dress it up in.
So he's sticking up for some form of ID philosophy -- good. The bible demands it. The bible would be wrong if the heavens and earth didn't "declare the glory of God" which includes His explicit participation as creation commenced. I don't think you will meet this Pope giving a testimony in any Kenneth Ham 6-24-hour-day-YEC presentations anytime soon, however. He sounds more like he leans to the OEC views of, say, (Protestant) Hugh Ross. And even that as "ordinary teaching" (he's not going to make it an ex cathedra, infallible doctrine over which people get kicked out of the RCC).
Well I think he has shouted to his church "Wake Up! This and This and This are non negotiable doctrines! If you don't like it, here's the door." Now his audience has to choose: will they be Roman Catholics? Or will they be something else, perhaps another flavor of Christian? I am not claiming the Pope is right about all this stuff, by the way. Even the "infallible" stuff. But I just don't see him touching evolutionism in any meaningful sense other than a general bully pulpit. Any more than I see the Pope joining a Southern Baptist Church.