Why are you trying to tell me what the Catholic Church does and doesn’t believe? We are all individuals. Why do you try to lump us together?
Whatever happened to the *unity* of Catholicism?
What is it now?
Catholics can pick and choose what they want to believe and what they want to reject based on preferences? Every man his own pope?
1.2 billion different interpretations of the CCC?
You allow for Catholics what you condemn in Protestantism?
Don't be a hypocrite and apply double standards.
I’m talking about the official teaching of the Catholic Church, which is the official shared belief of the priesthood. There may be priests who believe differently, esp. in the Third World, but they would be out of step with most priests. I’ve heard and read priests talk about this many times and not one so far has believed that the Creation account is literal. You might ask some priests. From what I understand, it’s not a dogma, but it is what the leadership believes, and beliefs have consequences. The Cath. catechism, I believe 283, speaks of Catholicism’s belief in theistic evolution, referring to “the development of life-forms” and science revealing things about the universe’s age. And 289, I believe, refers to there being multiple authors of Genesis, rather than only Moses, which has been the position of secular, anti-Christian scholars.