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The RCC has never taught a literal reading of the Bible. Indeed, the Church regards this as part of the Protestant error.

The Catholic Church has never embraced Protestant creationism. Throughout Catholic Latin America, evolution is taught in church and public schools without any significant opposition or controversy.

"The RCC has never taught a literal reading of the Bible. Indeed, the Church regards this as part of the Protestant error. "

That's part of the problem with the RCC. It's not a "protestant error" it's an error not to take God literally when appropriate.

The RCC has no problem LITERALLY believing that bread and wine will convert to drinking His blood and eating His body. That's a literal that NO ONE should take. It's a sin to eat human flesh and a sin to drink human blood. That NEVER changed and to have imaginary cannibalism must grieve Him deeply. Communion is symbolic - not literally imagining you literally drinking His blood and literally eating His body - imagining it transforms into this - gives me the creeps - KNOWING it is SYMPBOLIC.

However, in "Truth and Tolerance," the Holy Faith sees the basic problem as the cleft between reason and faith, in a world where faith to many is nothing more than feeling. He quotes Werner Heisenberg worry(in 1927) that this may lead to disaster. The Chjristian view, as stated by the Holy Father in dis discussion of the wisdom books, that it was the concept of wisdom that brought together the personal God of Abraham together with the "High God"
of the pagans, who was not thought to have interest in the affairs of men.
"The rationality that is to be seen in the structure of the world is understood as the reflection of the Creative Wisdom that has produced it. The view of reality now corresponds to some extent the question Heisenburg formulated... "'Is it completely meaningless to imagine, behind the ordering structures and principles of the world as a whole, a consciousness whose intention these world express?" The radical evolutionists say, no. They are not open to a question posed by a great physicist.