If after reading the speech you still see the word somewhere, please let me know.
Apostle
The link supplied above is refering to the speech you are talking about?
It starts with:
quote:
Magisterium Is Concerned with Question of Evolution
For It Involves Conception of Man
and mentions evolution more than a dozen other times.
However, on rereading it and noting the plural of theory, I agree that it is not as clear as I thought it was.
I still think he is trying to agree with modern biology but is trying to avoid being to explicit. However, that might have to be sorted out from outside this speech.
I'll let others argue the details but I'd say he is more agreeing tiwh most of biology than disagrees with it. I would bet a bunch that he certainly isn't a YEC and that he would agree that we evolved from non-human species. He would say that our sprit comes from somewhere else, however.
Now how would we determine what the "official" position is in clear, unambiguous language?
You have seemed to suggest that somehow or another what the Pope says isn't the "official" position. I find that astonding. So how would we determine that position? Pick one or two in the church who agree with you?