You're not offending me. I agree with what I think you're saying -- the Pope is trying to have it both ways. But I think he's done a very good job of it. One thing is clear -- he's not supporting a fundamentalist reading of Genesis, that is, he's not coming out and bashing evolution. The institution he heads ended up looking like fools over the Galileo incident, and they seem determined not to ever let that happen again. The Pope does not want the Church to end up in an intellectual backwater, while the world passes them by. This is entirely admirable.