Papal Astronomer Says: Creationism Is A Type Of Paganism.

This is not new policy for the Church. The RC Church has said for decades that the six day creation and the Young Earth nonsense is just that, nonsense:

Creationism dismissed as 'a kind of paganism' by Vatican's astronomer
IAN JOHNSTON
The Scotsman (news.scotsman.com)
May 5th, 2006

BELIEVING that God created the universe in six days is a form of superstitious paganism, the Vatican astronomer Guy Consolmagno claimed yesterday.

Brother Consolmagno, who works in a Vatican observatory in Arizona and as curator of the Vatican meteorite collection in Italy, said a "destructive myth" had developed in modern society that religion and science were competing ideologies....

"Religion needs science to keep it away from superstition and keep it close to reality, to protect it from creationism, which at the end of the day is a kind of paganism - it's turning God into a nature god. And science needs religion in order to have a conscience, to know that, just because something is possible, it may not be a good thing to do."