Another step back

This from Slate.com's Today's Papers this morning

In a fun piece of meta-reporting, the NYT fronts news about an op-ed it ran itself two days prior in which a leading cardinal suggested that modern evolutionary theory is incompatible with Catholicism. The op-ed is significant because the Catholic Church has long been thought to have accepted evolution. But this cardinal thinks the Church's position has been "misrepresented" and implied that Pope Benedict was sympathetic to that view.

Of course. The Catholic Church is apparently read to take a step back in its own evolution.

Andrew Sullivan, the gay, Catholic, conservative, also notes this on his blog. "So we return to the 19th centurny," he says.