I think that if you dig a bit you will find that the Catholic Church does support "macro evolution". If you don't you could try the thread on that topic.
EvC Forum: Macro and Micro Evolution
Here is what I think is a Catholic source on this subject:
http://www.cin.org/visevol.html
What I read them as saying is:
1)The entry of the human spirit is not a subject of the study of science. "'if the origin of the human body is sought in living matter which existed before it, the spiritual soul is directly created by God."
2)In the last 50 years there has been a great deal more leaned which supports the ToE as understood by science.
"'Humani Generis'," he stated, "considered the doctrine of 'evolutionism' as a serious hypothesis, worthy of a more deeply studied investigation and reflection on a par with the opposite hypothesis. ... Today, more than a half century after this encyclical, new knowledge leads us to recognize in the theory of evolution more than a hypothesis. ... The convergence, neither soughtnor induced, of results of work done independently one from the other, constitutes in itself a significant argument in favor of this theory."
3)Both aspects of the development of human kind must be considered.
"To tell the truth, more than the theory of evolution, one must speak of the theories of evolution. ... There are thus materialistic and reductionist readings and spiritual readings."
And in what appears to be a pretty good summary:
"Consideration of the method used in diverse orders of knowledge allows for the concordance of two points of view which seem irreconcilable. The sciences of observation describe and measure with ever greater precision the multiple manifestations of life and place them on a timeline. The moment of passing over to the spiritual is not the object of an observation of this type, which can nevertheless reveal, on an experimental level, a series of very useful signs about the specificity of the human being. But the experience of metaphysical knowledge, of the awareness of self and of its reflexive nature, that of the moral conscience, that of liberty, or still yet the aesthetic and religious experience, are within the competence of philosophical analysis and reflection, while theology extracts from it the final meaning according to the Creator's designs."
Sorry, Apostle, this is theistic evolution all the way through. If we disagree I guess I'm going to have to wander up the road to my Catholic friends and get him to check in at church. If there some other input you would need?
[This message has been edited by NosyNed, 11-24-2003]