A Catholic priest, bishop, or Pope....is only an expert at one thing...reading off the Bible scripture. Beyond that....they can’t tune carburetors,repair a leaking roof, lay bricks, herd cattle, run a flea market, or operate a pub. Any time they want to offer up advice on capitalism or the best time of year to plant corn, I wouldn’t waste much time with them.
I'll offer you two examples that immediately come to mind: the late Fr. Stanley Jaki, a theologian and physicist who spent much of his career debunking so many of the myths surrounding the "settled science" of evolution; and Fr. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, one of the top advocates for human life in the Catholic Church (he did his graduate work at Harvard and Yale, and has a PhD. in neuroscience.