I'm not making this up you know... I was alive then! - every world religious leader of all faiths asked their followers to pray...

Oh, I know. I meant you must have been joking about the Church still claiming that the sun circled the earth at that time.

I don't think any of the Catholics I know have much of a problem with the theory of evolution...but I can't speak for the Pope..

He has no problem with that either. He certainly has a lot of other problems though.