Yes youre right theologically Catholicism is very different to American protestantism which gave birth to the creationist movement and are certainly not interested in the sort of fundamentalist theocracy that most of them want  Sure they use the teleological argument but phrase it in theological language which is a lot different from scientific language and hence it isnt pseudoscience which is what irks me as a scientist  But I dont understand theology probably because Ive been trained to think too scientifically  And the Catholic Church most of the time has better things to do than make statements on scientific issues  But Catholics are really into authority so what the hierarchy says goes