The catastrophic decline in religious belief in recent years is a sign of the power of evolutionary propaganda and a graphic illustration of the hold it has over the modern mind.
Unfortunately, Christianity has not been immune to all this, and we have reached the situation where perhaps the majority of those who would describe themselves as Christians, including many Catholics, hold to some form of evolutionary theory.
However, some of the more evangelically minded Christians seem to have resisted the inroads of Evolution, and this is due to the tenacity with which they have held onto belief in the literal truth of Genesis. This belief seems to have been lost to a large extent within the Catholic Church in a practical sense.
But it is important to recognise that this does not mean that the Church has fallen into error on this important point.
As far as the teachings of the Magisterium are concerned, and the documents of Vatican II, the emphasis on the Bible as the inspired Word of God is still there. What has happened is that evolutionary ideas have undermined the general faith of the Church, and so this Biblical emphasis has been overshadowed.
We can trace back this process to the Reformation, when a certain suspicion of the Bible entered into Catholic circles because of the way men such as Luther and Calvin interpreted it. The cleavage between Catholics and Protestants developed into a huge chasm as the centuries passed and was still a major factor at the time of Darwin